Nah, it's on me for not being specific.
Also, come to think of it, there's gotta be a few Republicans sweating bullets right about now.
The Glowing Dream: A history of Socialist America
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Also, come to think of it, there's gotta be a few Republicans sweating bullets right about now.
I hadn't really thought about George Pullman's fate. But Pullman, IOTL, died in '97, so only three years after the Pullman strike. I imagine there aren't any real butterflies that would lengthen his life ITTL, so he's probably dead by now. He might have even died a year or two earlier, considering the stress being at the epicenter of the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War is bound to put on a man. And he would certainly have spent his last few years a far more controversial figure than IOTL, probably one who needed a coterie of bodyguards to get around.
Starting to wonder if TTL will see the US and Russia fall to socialism at the same time - the eastern and western juggernauts, with liberal/reactionary Europe stuck between them.
If you're still looking for requests about worldwide developments, I'd like to know if events in Russia, China, or Japan are diverging from OTL in ways that will become more and more divergent in the future.
If you're still looking for requests about worldwide developments, I'd like to know if events in Russia, China, or Japan are diverging from OTL in ways that will become more and more divergent in the future.
Keynesian Economics and Rich Taxes up the fucking wazoo: Billionaires becoming Millionaires and Millionaires becoming Thousandaires.
II also fully expect Japan, Brasil and Argentina joining up in an capitalist alliance with Europe.
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I wonder if the German Thermidor will come through? The help of American revolutionaries allowing the plucky Germans to come to the aid of the Soviets and maybe preserve the very early soviet democracy.
Seems like the United States + Germany would be a pretty unstoppable combo in the twentieth century, if their respective socialist regimes actually managed to get along.
Except if the Russians, French and Austrians gang up on the Germans before the Americans can come to their aid.
So the Second World War will be the International: USA, Russia, and Germany vs UK, France, and Austria.
That would be an absolutely catastrophic mismatch for a second world war scenario.
hopefully Trotsky never rises to power as well because there was only to 3 differences between Stalin and Trotsky: 1 Trotsky was a zealot, 2 Stalin knew how to read a room and 3 Stalin won.
