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Castroism and Xi-era CCP
Measured distance across six axes
Different families with real common ground. They agree within three points on AU, SC. They diverge by eight points or more on CU, CH.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Cuban Communism | Xi-era CCP | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | −09 | −02 | 7 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| 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 | +10 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +09 | +10 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| ID · Rule of membership | 00 | +07 | 7 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CH · Method and tempo | +07 | −02 | 9 | 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 · 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.
Xi-era CCP · CU +08
A pronounced traditionalist turn: Confucian revival, birth promotion, and campaigns against what the party calls effeminate culture.
- Documented act or statuteThe one-child policy was replaced by a three-child policy with pronatalist incentives from 2021.
- Documented act or statuteBroadcast regulations from 2021 restricted celebrity culture, gaming hours for minors and private tutoring.
Cuban Communism · CH +07
Coded +7: power won by guerrilla insurrection.
- Documented act or statuteThe government was overthrown by armed struggle in January 1959.
Xi-era CCP · CH −02
Coded negative: the regime is now the established order and its stated priority is stability.
- Comparative dataset'Stability maintenance' spending has exceeded the published defence budget in several years.
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.
Xi-era CCP
2012– · China
Party leadership over everything, national rejuvenation, common prosperity, and discipline of private capital.
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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