liberalism

A M E R I C A N.....S I S Y P H U S Preface America's 33rd President, Henry Agard Wallace is often seen as both the most controversial and revered President's in recent American history, depending on who you ask. For the American public, President Wallace is often seen as a man who succeeded...

John VI ruled Portugal during an extremely difficult period, during which the country was wracked by foreign threats and internal crises he had no hope of subduing with the resources he had. He faced a Spanish invasion, a French one (which prompted his and the court's flight to Brazil), a...

A common trope I see with highly interventionist and command economies is that they pursue "autarky", aka to rely only on their own resources and not be affected by external trends and blockades This often leads to isolationist policies trying to shield authoritarian nations from the outside...

Greetings fellow readers and lovers of History. I decided to bring this new Timeline of mine about Portugal (of course) which will be a secondary project on this site given the requirements that this specific period needs to be handled decently. The POD is the death of Miguel [Michael I] de...

Which politicians that died in the 20th and 21st century could have lived longer? How would their survival affect Historical events? I want to limit the discussion to politicians whose death was caused by Murder, accident or disease. Authority figures in dictatorships should be counted as...

OTL Germany was rebuilt on a christian democrat fashion with social liberal tendencies, as the government kept social conservatism with worker's rights and adopted economical ordoliberalism. On another hand, we had the growing dirigism on most of the third world, with places like Korea, Japan...

OTL Germany was rebuilt on a christian democrat fashion with social liberal tendencies, as the government kept social conservatism with worker's rights and adopted economical ordoliberalism. On another hand, we had the growing dirigism on most of the third world, with places like Korea, Japan...

I would like to get some citations of how many political ideologies exists in total numbers when you count all the different democratic, anarchistic etc variants altogether?, i would like to write this number in a paper i am doing, but i dont have the time to count the ones on this very long...

How would you develop a world where these Modernist ideologies are simply made never to take hold? Capitalism wouldn't develop, because there wouldn't be any virtue seen in amassing wealth and monetary influence, instead Economy would continue to work with a Guild-based production industry...

So, Liberal Italy, before Mussolini, is something which really only came to an end due to Mussolini. Despite the impact of the Biennio Rosso (actually perhaps partly because of it) socialism never seemed to have the support to topple Italy's political structure - somewhat interesting considering...

I’ve seen a lot of discussion about the effect that a failed American Revolution would have on the development of republicanism and liberalism, typically arguing that these ideologies would ultimately be hurt or even delegitimized, but a discussion that I don’t think I’ve ever seen is what would...

One interesting idea I see is Jan skits winning in 1948. At this time, his views of blacks had begun to liberalize more. I would think South Africa would become more like Rhodesia, as in less protective of Afrikaner culture, and more focused on “western civilization” as a whole. It will also be...

In 1977, Democratic heavyweights Ed Koch and Mario Cuomo fought a bitter, bruising contest for the Democratic nomination in the election to determine New York's next Mayor. Koch's supporters attacked Cuomo's principled opposition to the death penalty, while Cuomo supporters smeared Koch for...

In 1938, the Senate formed a committee to examine health policy with the ultimate objective of creating universal health care. This policy was a major domestic goal of President Roosevelt who tried and failed on multiple occasions to enact UHC. But by the time the finished bill was proposed as...

In December of 1825, when Tsar Nicholas I inherited the throne of Russia, a small liberal faction of the Russian army rose up in revolt against his reactionary rule. Their uprising was crushed IOTL, but what if it hadn’t been? Could it have spread to more of the army? If it had been successful...

On the Failed Dutch Invasion On the early morning of the 29th of October, 1688, a handful of ships set sail from the Dutch port of Hellevoetsluis, despite the adversarial winds keeping a majority of the flotilla’s would-be fleetmates in port. At the head of this small fleet sailed William of...

Harry Truman was a very popular man going into the Presidential Election of 1952. With a booming economy and successful foreign policy, he was sure he could make his mark every bit as strong as his predecessor. Republicans had other plans. They had, they felt, missed their chance in 1948, and...

The basic idea is that one of the 19th century liberal free-trade supporters or possibly one of the 18th century French Physiocrats decides that no government sounds like a pretty good idea and coins the word "anarchism" before Proudhon. How would anarchism develop from then on? How would it...

It was January 10th 1984 when President Ronald Reagan was assassinated. He was no stranger to attempts, just 69 days into his presidency some nut in love with an actress had tried to shoot him, had gotten his then Press Secretary permanently disabled. However that didn't leave him in fear, that...

VICTORY FOR CHINESE DEMOCRACY A Global Wikipedia-Style Timeline with Daily Updates PART I: 1947-1952 Regional Focus: Eastern and Southeastern Asia Chinese Revolution of 1947 The Chinese Revolution of 1947, named the Thirty-Six Revolution domestically because it occurred on the 36th...