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It would also be interesting to see what kind of role he might play in World War II. The irony of Trotsky returning as a general in a Comintern-led army, giving directions to Soviet troops, would be a hilarious turn of events that would probably be enough to give Stalin a heart attack all on its...

I lean towards believing this as well. I could see Trotsky as sort of an elder statesman within Liberation, perhaps even a chief ideological influence (given the confluence of the Left Communists and what would have been Trotskyism IOTL, the party could indeed look like a weird mix of Orthodox...

A few quick questions - 1) Given that Trotskyism won't be a thing ITTL, where do most of the OTL Trotskyists end up? I mean obviously they're going to be in the WCPA but I'm interested in seeing where they'll split after the breakup of the party in the mid-1940s. I know in the original draft...

Why would Jefferson be praised for his opposition to the development of capitalism? Marxists regard capitalism as a positive social development, relative to what came before it. If anything, Jefferson will be hailed as an ideologist and leader of a the first American bourgeois revolution. Same...

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Would Columbus be renamed, though? I can see it maybe being renamed in the 1960s or 1970s (during the Second Cultural Revolution), but I doubt it would be renamed in the heat of the 1930s social revolution, given the fairly positive opinion that (most) Marxists had of the encounter of Columbus...

I don't think it's totally implausible. The Soviet Union had legal homosexuality in the 1920s, after all. In fact, the presence of the UASR would probably end up blunting Stalin's counterrevolution in the realm of gay rights and women's rights to some extent.

So how well is Alfred Kinsey's reporting on human sexuality going to be received in the 1950s UASR? I'd expect much, much better than it was IOTL. I also seem to remember a mention of the 1950s being the decade of the sexual revolution ITTL...would those be partly a catalyst?

I think for this to be realistic you have to have an earlier split in the Second International than IOTL. Maybe the leadership takes Engels' advice to expel Bernstein and he takes a good chunk of his followers with him into an alternate Socialist International, while the rest of the organization...

Confederate States of America The Confederate States of America (C.S.A. or C.S. for short) is a confederation of sovereign states that stretches from the former U.S. state of Delaware (incorporated into the C.S. in the aftermath of the Southern War of Independence) at its northern border with...

Any hints on what powers the modern UASR and FBU? I feel like a far-flung post from the past mentioned phasing out coal mining operations in favor of nuclear reactors in the UASR as early as the 1950s, and I'd be interested in seeing how both powers, which to my knowledge are more...

And yet certainly relevant.

Can't decide if I'd be part of Liberation or the left. Thank you for answering my question, Jello Biafra.

Would either of you be willing to do a breakdown of the internal factions of the WCPA? We know that there's an Ultra-Left, Left, and Center for certain, but I'm not sure if you two have ever fleshed out who those factions are composed of, what their respective 'bases' (i.e. which demographic...

One of the top scoring links on Reddit today was that fun anecdote about how Thomas Jefferson wanted a new constitution every twenty years or so. I was bored, so I whipped up an admittedly ASB list that did just that. I have a few footnotes, but I'd like to remind everyone that this is...