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Italian Fascism and Likud

Measured distance across six axes

13.5 / 49.0 possible

Different families with real common ground. They agree within three points on CU, ID. They diverge by eight points or more on CH.

Axis by axis

AxisPNFLikudGapReading
EC · Economic organisation+01+065DiffersReal difference, but not the dividing line.
CU · Social and cultural order+08+062AgreesEffectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about.
AU · Organisation of power+09+054DiffersReal difference, but not the dividing line.
SC · Scale of decision+09+036DiffersReal difference, but not the dividing line.
ID · Rule of membership+07+070AgreesEffectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about.
CH · Method and tempo+07−0310DivergesCarries 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.

PNF · CH +07

Squad violence preceded office and the seizure was extra-parliamentary in form even though the appointment was legal.

  • Documented act or statuteBlackshirt squads killed hundreds of opponents between 1920 and 1922 before the March on Rome.
  • Documented act or statuteThe socialist deputy Matteotti was abducted and killed in 1924 after alleging electoral fraud.

Likud · CH −03

Coded −3: entirely electoral, with the judicial overhaul pursued through legislation.

  • Documented act or statuteHas alternated in and out of government repeatedly since 1977.

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.

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.

Likud

1973– · Israel

Security-first nationalism, settlement of the West Bank, free-market economics, judicial restraint.

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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