Recent content by hwyl

An effing nightmare that I'm happy not to contemplate, tbh.

I think they could do better but not win - maybe aim for Leningrad as a logistics base with shipping and be at least slightly less genocidal especially with minority nations etc. But being Nazis the room for rationality would be very limited. My ideal scenario for WW2 would be for both terror...

I remember once upon in time reading about this from various sources- and my recollection is that the consensus was that Humphrey was likely to get it but that it was by no means completely certain. In any case it was such an awful tragedy for the US, him surviving (even if maybe turning out to...

Adlai Stevenson, George Romney.

There would have been quite many who were not known at all but who would have been hugely talented. Someone who was known was Charles Sorley - his few poems were full of promise, but it's more his wise and balanced letters and diaries that show his nature, not moved by the intense hatreds of...

It would undoubtedly be very punctual and orderly :)

Did I say that? No, they are not the same at all. Still, overwhelmingly the most concrete, overwhelmingly the most important historical interpretations of Marx were either Leninist or revisionist. And whatever directly developed from them. Marx used the term quite vaguely indeed leaving it...

I'm tempted to give an impolite answer - but won't. In history, first come is rarely first served, and Lenin grabbed the copyright. Ruthless bugger. The question has been resolved over a century ago.

But likely not WW1 as we know it - the time and context might have been slightly or even much different, the personalities involved would not be identical, the various domestic situations would have been different etc. There would have been a score of potential butterflies. I don't think that...

Then there would have been like three "real communists" in the whole word and the whole term would be largely meaningless. In history communism has come to connotate the gigantically influential Soviet experiment and model and its direct offshoots. Who moreover called themselves communists and...

I think an interesting question would also be if there wouldn't have been the crisis of the summer of 1914 - I guess there must be several timelines about such a situation. My guess is that there would have been a some kind of of general conflict but maybe not at all like what we had iotl. But...

I think in these kinds of threads the most important thing is to distinguish between realistically optimize or optimize with the full benefit of hindsight. The first option is usually much more modest than the latter, but maybe more interesting...

I think the SPD handled things badly in 1919 but what could you expect in the Wilhelmine context when they had been kept totally out of power and the power structures being to a large part absurdly archaic? I still can barely fathom the extraordinary cowardice of Ludendorff and Hindenburg to...

Nopes, I think that was finalized by Stalin. Very conclusively.

Yeah, obviously you can, you just need to have a rather lengthy explanation about it - as in this empirical world most everyone else thinks about communism as, basically, well, Marxism-Leninism. I'm not a very devout Evangelical-Lutheran myself, but I think I could call myself catholic if memory...