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  1. WI: The Macedonian empire remained united after Alex the great died?

    In OTL the reason why the first war of the successors happened was because Perdiccas was making a play to marry Alexander's full sister Cleopetra, and EVERYONE thought that was him making a bid for the throne So that brought him into a war against Antipater, Craterus in Macedon/Greece and...

  2. WI: The Macedonian empire remained united after Alex the great died?

    Craterus had definiteily fallen out of favor by 323 BC for opposing Alexander's cultural mixing programme, that's why he was dispatched home to Macedon away from Alexander's court in Babylon Perdiccas was -definitely- the intended regent, the single act Alexander took to appoint a regent was to...

  3. WI: The Macedonian empire remained united after Alex the great died?

    Ptolmey would off Alexander IV within a couple of years in this scenario

  4. WI: The Macedonian empire remained united after Alex the great died?

    That comes with its own problems: because Alexander would be marrying into one of the prominent Macedonian baronial families, which are factionalized and by doing so he's inherently pissing off and leads to future conflicts. The one benefit of marrying non-Macedonian women is that at least you...

  5. WI: The Macedonian empire remained united after Alex the great died?

    His son would be like 1 years old when Alex is 34, and would almost certainly be killed as part of a succession struggle that is endemic to both the Macedonian and Persian monarchies For context his wife was pregnant with Alexander IV when Alexander died This is more or less what was suppose...

  6. Is it impossible to predict which slightly unhinged man might end up becoming a murderous dictator in the cold war?

    Or Bashir Assad, who was an unassuming eye-surgeon living in London, and was described by his colleagues as "geeky IT guy" and had no interest in politics until he was thrusted into the role of heir to the presidency in his 30s, and then he went on to mass murder his own people just fine

  7. Worker coops own economies after eastern bloc falls

    It wouldn't make that big a difference imo The share is just a piece of paper and legal fiction. Even if you directly transfer shares you still need a mechanism for the average person to be able to exercise your rights as a shareholder Doable in a country with a functional court and political...

  8. Is it impossible to predict which slightly unhinged man might end up becoming a murderous dictator in the cold war?

    The Milgram experiment demonstrated you can get completely normal people to do horrible things, the experiment has being conducted over and over again across decades with similar results: And you can't explain that away with childhood trauma, it's more like average human beings in every...

  9. Is it impossible to predict which slightly unhinged man might end up becoming a murderous dictator in the cold war?

    Not really, this sort of armchair psychology is pretty common but oversimplifies things. Plenty, even most people, back then have what today would be considered abusive childhoods. Stuff like physically disciplining children were just the norm back then. I basically agree with Kotkin in his...

  10. Byzantine Alexios with Crusaders reconquers all Anatolia,Antioch, Jerusalem and John reconquers Egypt

    Nicaea wasn't that big of a deal Antioch though absolutely was, from the Crusader's PoV Alexios used them and then left them to die

  11. Worker coops own economies after eastern bloc falls

    Also, in worker's co-op, what happens if I as a worker of co-op X just want to sell my shares of X to some outsider for $$$ but keep working there I mean just for some background, I actually do get vested shares of the company I work for as part of my compensation package. I ended up cashing...

  12. Worker coops own economies after eastern bloc falls

    This was actually tried in Russia so what happened was that workers post-1991 were given vouchers which enabled them to buy shares of the company they worked in, and then in theory this would allow industries to be worker owned. The problem is that the normal person do not have the knowledge...

  13. Worker coops own economies after eastern bloc falls

    a big part of Solidarność and working class support for Perestroika in the USSR indeed lay with the idea that ending Communism meant industries would revert back to -worker- control. They were not for western style Capitalism and private ownership so much as they were for something closer to the...

  14. How could Gorbachev's reforms meant to save the USSR have been successful?

    The Soviets themselves acknowledged that it failed:

  15. How could Gorbachev's reforms meant to save the USSR have been successful?

    Even the 1985-87 reforms were failures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uskorenie but hey at least he didn't screw around with anything truly important in those 2 years

  16. How could Gorbachev's reforms meant to save the USSR have been successful?

    No it wasn't Gorbachev's reforms was what -caused- the system to collapse he tried to have both a planned and a market economy at once: and got worst of both worlds

  17. What if Stalin only purged Trotskyites and didn't let mass psychosis/tattling set in?

    that's not what the right opposition was

  18. Can Japanese politics be more polarized by the present day?

    they don't have polarization because they don't have immigration lol also no unpopular foreign wars ala iraq if you look at polarization EVERYWHERE immigration is #1 or #2 topic so in Japan they basically just decided they'll have closed borders, and keep temporary foreign workers out of...

  19. How to fix Rome - the republic - the imperial inflation?

    Rome needed a system of sovereign debt the reason why inflation occured is because every time during a major crisis you had to pay the army the emperor had to debase the coinage when he had an empty treasury; which was very frequent. It was the ony way they could raise funds in a hurry. Modern...

  20. Genocide against the Indonesian Chinese by Suharto

    the dude honestly seem kinda mentally unwill considering how meandering those posts go
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