Divine Intervention
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What is earlist successful socialist revolution that might happen and is not ASB?
Earliest socialist revolution
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You'd probably end up with Napoléon putting it down.
I would go for a longer lasting 2nd French Republic with the conservative and quasi reactionary takeover by the Party of Order continuing, allowing for social tensions to grow unaddressed and burst out as a greater version of 1848's June Days with perhaps Blanqui as the leader of this revolution.
I would go for a longer lasting 2nd French Republic with the conservative and quasi reactionary takeover by the Party of Order continuing, allowing for social tensions to grow unaddressed and burst out as a greater version of 1848's June Days with perhaps Blanqui as the leader of this revolution.
Divine Intervention
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I like the way you think.
Are there any ideas for German city states or Britain prehaps?
English Peasants' Revolt of 1381!
(Kidding, it would've been more like halfway between the Glorious Revolution and the French Revolution. But the concept of the revolt kinda reminds me of maoism.)
(Kidding, it would've been more like halfway between the Glorious Revolution and the French Revolution. But the concept of the revolt kinda reminds me of maoism.)
Brunaburh
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The Levellers in the New Model Army during the English revolution were strong candidates, but their ideology was not socialist enough really. A combination of digger and leveller thought would have been both socialistic and revolutionary.
But as others have said, there are thousands of revolutionary moments throughout history, the important thing is to get violence and ideology together at the right time.
But as others have said, there are thousands of revolutionary moments throughout history, the important thing is to get violence and ideology together at the right time.
Hapsburg
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This, probably. The trouble with most of the proposed examples prior to Gracchus Babeuf is that socialism isn't just a catch-all for ground-level egalitarianism. It's pretty specifically a reaction to capitalism (and the colonialism that fed it), which had only really become an entrenched thing in the 18th century.
Except for the fact that there are no contemporary records of such a thing taking place in Egypt, or even any indirect evidence, such as the Egyptian economy imploding due to such a large-scale emigration.
Not to mention the fact that Palestine was under Egyptian rule, and was guarded by many forts. Such a large group would have been seen.
It was more likely the Jewish interpretation of the Sea People migration and the Bronze Age Collapse.
That sounds much more realistic, though I don't know much about the subject to provide any more insight.
Divine Intervention
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No, in 1905 Russian empire still had firm grip over society.
Is there a way to make Glorious Revolution way more chaotic and to last longer, causing potential social moment to take leftist shape?
This way, probably :
The military invasion by the Dutch would have to get bogged down somewhere in Britain causing say the Second English Civil War. It happens because King James 2 has prepared for the war for longer.
Define socialism?
Because to a degree the French Revolutions were a form of socialism. But GB could have had one. There was a serious danger that this could have taken place in the early 19th. Victoria's reign might have been the golden age, but within the British Isles without certain groups efforts, it would have been a perfect breeding ground for revolution.
Because to a degree the French Revolutions were a form of socialism. But GB could have had one. There was a serious danger that this could have taken place in the early 19th. Victoria's reign might have been the golden age, but within the British Isles without certain groups efforts, it would have been a perfect breeding ground for revolution.