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Falangism and Italian Fascism
Measured distance across six axes
Effectively the same position. They agree within three points on EC, CU, AU, SC, ID, CH. No axis separates them by eight points or more.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Spanish Phalanx | PNF | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | 00 | +01 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +09 | +08 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +09 | +09 | 0 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +08 | +09 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +05 | +07 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CH · Method and tempo | +06 | +07 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
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.
Spanish Phalanx · ID +05
Coded +5 after the v2.2 review: assimilationist Hispanidad rather than racial closure.
- Programme textThe doctrine claimed a civilisational community across the Spanish-speaking world.
PNF · ID +07
Coded high but below Nazism: the racial laws came late, under German pressure, and were not foundational doctrine.
- Documented act or statuteThe racial laws of 1938 excluded Jews from schools, professions and marriage sixteen years into the regime.
- Documented act or statuteColonial subjects in Libya and East Africa were governed under separate and inferior legal status throughout.
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.
Falangism
1933–1975 · Spain
National-syndicalist unity of Spain under Catholic and imperial identity, against both class war and liberal parliamentarism.
Italian Fascism
1922–1943 · Italy
The nation as an organic whole realised in the state; violence as regenerative; liberalism and Marxism both to be destroyed.
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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