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Castroism and National Rally
Measured distance across six axes
Different families with real common ground. No axis places them within three points of each other. They diverge by eight points or more on EC, CU, CH.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Cuban Communism | RN, Front National | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | −09 | −01 | 8 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | −01 | +08 | 9 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +09 | +04 | 5 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +09 | +03 | 6 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| ID · Rule of membership | 00 | +07 | 7 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CH · Method and tempo | +07 | −01 | 8 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
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.
Cuban Communism · EC −09
Coded −9: state ownership of nearly all production with limited private licences since 2011.
- Documented act or statuteAround 500 categories of self-employment were legalised from 2011 and expanded in 2021.
RN, Front National · EC −01
Moved from a market position in the 1980s to a protectionist and pro-welfare position, which is why it now sits near the centre.
- Programme textOpposition to raising the pension age and support for price controls on energy and food staples.
- Comparative datasetCHES records a substantial leftward movement in radical right economic positioning across recent waves.
Cuban Communism · CU −01
Coded −1: universal education and health alongside decades of persecution of homosexuals, later reversed.
- Documented act or statuteGay men were sent to UMAP labour camps in the 1960s; same-sex marriage was legalised by referendum in 2022.
RN, Front National · CU +08
Coded +8 on national identity, secularism as applied to Islam, and opposition to expanded gender recognition.
- Programme textProgramme commitments to ban the headscarf in public spaces and to restrict legal recognition of gender transition.
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.
Castroism
1959– · Cuba
Anti-imperial national sovereignty plus socialist transformation, led by a guerrilla-derived party-state.
National Rally
1972– · France
National priority for French citizens, sharp restriction of immigration, sovereignty against the EU, protection of purchasing power.
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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