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La Libertad Avanza and Stalinism
Measured distance across six axes
Opposed programmes with little shared ground. They agree within three points on CU, ID. They diverge by eight points or more on EC, SC.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Milei | Socialism in one country | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +10 | −10 | 20 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +06 | +03 | 3 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +04 | +10 | 6 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| SC · Scale of decision | 00 | +10 | 10 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +03 | +03 | 0 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CH · Method and tempo | +03 | +08 | 5 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
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.
Milei · EC +10
The most market-oriented sitting government in the dataset.
- Documented act or statuteThe December 2023 emergency decree repealed or amended over three hundred regulations at once.
- Documented act or statuteMinistries were reduced from eighteen to nine and public employment cut sharply.
Socialism in one country · EC −10
Private ownership of productive assets was eliminated outright and allocation was set by physical plan targets rather than prices.
- Documented act or statuteThe first Five-Year Plan from 1928 placed all industry under state ownership and central targets.
- Documented act or statuteCollectivisation from 1929 abolished private farming; roughly a quarter of a million households were deported as kulaks.
Milei · SC 00
Coded at zero: federal transfers cut sharply, which decentralises fiscally and centralises power.
- Documented act or statuteDiscretionary transfers to provinces were reduced or halted in 2024.
Socialism in one country · SC +10
The most centralised state then in existence, with republics nominally federal and actually administered from Moscow.
- Documented act or statuteGosplan set physical output targets for the entire union economy from Moscow.
- Documented act or statuteThe 1936 constitution granted republics a formal right of secession that had no mechanism and was never exercised.
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.
La Libertad Avanza
2021– · Argentina
Radical reduction of the state, dollarisation, and a declared war on the political caste.
Stalinism
1928–1953 · USSR
Forced industrialisation and collectivisation under a single leader identified with the party, the state and history itself.
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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