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Global Greens and Italian Fascism

Measured distance across six axes

31.3 / 49.0 possible

Opposite ends of the recorded space. No axis places them within three points of each other. They diverge by eight points or more on CU, AU, SC, ID, CH.

Axis by axis

AxisGlobal GreensPNFGapReading
EC · Economic organisation−05+016DiffersReal difference, but not the dividing line.
CU · Social and cultural order−09+0817DivergesCarries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this.
AU · Organisation of power−06+0915DivergesCarries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this.
SC · Scale of decision 00+099DivergesCarries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this.
ID · Rule of membership−08+0715DivergesCarries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this.
CH · Method and tempo−04+0711DivergesCarries 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.

Global Greens · CU −09

Coded −9: respect for diversity is one of the six founding principles.

  • Programme textThe Charter commits to gender equity, indigenous rights and cultural diversity as core rather than adjacent.

PNF · CU +08

The state claimed authority over the whole of social life, with the 1929 concordat restoring the church's role in it.

  • Documented act or statuteThe Lateran Treaty of 1929 made Catholicism the state religion and returned religious instruction to schools.
  • Documented act or statuteYouth, leisure and professional life were organised through party bodies such as the Opera Nazionale Balilla and Dopolavoro.

Global Greens · AU −06

Coded strongly negative: rotation, mandates and referenda were founding organisational commitments, not later additions.

  • Programme textThe 2001 Global Greens Charter names participatory democracy as one of six principles.
  • Documented act or statuteDie Grünen operated office rotation and imperative mandates in its early parliamentary practice.

PNF · AU +09

Parliament, opposition parties and the free press were removed by statute between 1925 and 1928.

  • Documented act or statuteThe 1926 'very fascist laws' dissolved all other parties and created a political police and a special tribunal.
  • Documented act or statuteThe 1928 electoral law replaced constituency choice with a single national list drawn up by the Fascist Grand Council.

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.

Global Greens

2001– · Worldwide

Ecological wisdom, social justice, participatory democracy, non-violence, sustainability, respect for diversity.

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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