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Bukelismo and National Socialism

Measured distance across six axes

11.4 / 49.0 possible

The same broad family. They agree within three points on EC, CU, AU, SC. No axis separates them by eight points or more.

Axis by axis

AxisNuevas IdeasNSDAPGapReading
EC · Economic organisation+05+023AgreesEffectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about.
CU · Social and cultural order+06+093AgreesEffectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about.
AU · Organisation of power+08+102AgreesEffectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about.
SC · Scale of decision+06+093AgreesEffectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about.
ID · Rule of membership+03+107DiffersReal difference, but not the dividing line.
CH · Method and tempo+02+097DiffersReal difference, but not the dividing line.

Each axis runs from −10 to +10; the distance is the straight-line separation across all six at once, out of a maximum of 49.0. How the scoring works →

The evidence behind the widest gaps

A distance figure is worth nothing unless the scores behind it can be checked. These are the artefacts supporting the axes that separate these two most.

Nuevas Ideas · ID +03

Coded mildly positive: membership defined by conduct rather than ancestry, with mass exclusion by suspicion.

  • Documented act or statuteAround 2% of the adult population has been detained under the state of exception, largely without individualised charge.

NSDAP · ID +10

Membership of the political community was defined by ancestry in statute, with the penalty for exclusion escalating to extermination.

  • Documented act or statuteThe 1935 Nuremberg Laws defined citizenship by descent and criminalised marriage across the line they drew.
  • Documented act or statuteThe 1939–1945 extermination programme is the terminal case of an ascriptive membership rule.

What this comparison does not establish

Proximity means similarity of stated position. It carries no claim about competence, circumstance, scale of operation, or what either organisation actually did to the people under it. Two organisations can sit close together and produce entirely different histories, because those things are not on any axis and could not be.

Bukelismo

2019– · El Salvador

Mass incarceration of suspected gang members under a permanent state of exception, sold as the trade of civil liberties for physical safety.

National Socialism

1920–1945 · Germany

A racially defined national community, hierarchy by blood, conquest of living space, extermination of designated enemies.

Distance is not the whole answer. Two organisations can sit the same distance apart for entirely different reasons, and the reason is the content of any claim about them. Open the comparison in the atlas to weight the axes yourself.

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