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Whilst I argue that Lenin genuinely did not care about communism, Stalin was (poorly) trying to implement it. Just because it was a stupid attempt, doesnt mean it was not attempted

Depends on the school of thought, but a lot of buddhist economics it is looking at the physical result of actions on individual actuation on the whole. I.e. not inherently judging a person's wellbeing on how rich/poor they are, but on their access to fulfilling and sustainable living. Before he...

You are missing a quite important point of why European parties sometimes identify as socialist. Theoretically, the soc-dem model was/is meant to lay the foundation for later socialism rather than an assesment of what they propose for immediate policy. The reason the idea that more state = more...

My confusion is aimed at how OTL can have a greater population than itself prior to the POD making it an atl...

...I am a little confused, what is making europe more crowded prior to the POD?

Fair point... no point at which someone might make such reforms?

A lot of the modern ideas of immigration arent so much truisms earlier in history. The regions surrounding the Steppes suffered regular depopulations followed by mass immigration from multiple peoples repopulating those areas. Urgench went from being sacked for instance to being noted for just...

Sure, but I was suggesting earlier reforms or a more longsighted Lycurges.

Bit of a weird one, but my suggestion would be an islamic Europe. That isn't to say the old "they breed more!" idea, but that an Islamic Europe which is still the center of the colonial global order is a Europe that is very attractive for migration from the east and could serve as a base for...

This has made me think of a possible reform. Maybe somehow adopt a more aristocratic approach to conquests, i.e. The Spartan as the ideal noble. What I mean by this, is a Sparta that is able to incorporate certain people into it's idea of "Spartan". Sparta Conquers Athens, and then the children...

This is as ASB as it gets. Not only do said youth groups have to take down the government, but they have to do so after the chav slur has demonised them to the masses.

I think without a much earlier POD that this is unfortunately ASB. Even the Nazis who people are pointing to as an example didn't really fit, there were anti-christian trends in Nazi Germany but they wre far from the norm or yet an ultimate arbitrater of Nazi policy towards Christianity (with...

They needed either another Lycurges for reform or to significantly alter the reforms of Lycurges in the first place. The spartan/helot dynamic was super limiting because of (amongst many things) population dynamics. Having your entire male population as citizen soldiers isn't the best for...

Thanks, and likewise :) I might suggest we take this to the radical left thread however as in hindsight we have somewhat derailed this thread :L

And that is by itself useless if, like in bigger decisions, they can't agree/don't agree on the conclusions of that data or propose contradictory data. Have you ever tried to solve an issue where people flat out disagree on reality? It sounds like an extreme, but it happens in every day...

So here is where I think the source of confusion is. Consultation in any form, is not the beggining or end of a given political action. From the start, consultation itself is only applicable when commonly binding to negotiating actors. I.e. if conflict (small c) has occured, the role of a...

I understand what you said, but don't believe it leads to the conclusion you think it does. At some point, a decision must be made on incompatible positions which is either democratic or dictated, something you recognise later but not seemingly the scale of daily decision processes. Mutualism...

I think your best bet would be to have a people afopt a very strong transtheism, i.e. a more nationalist Taoism that doesnt diverge too far from the works of Lao Tzu Atheism isn't a philosophy, but a philosophical position. I.e. platonism the philosphy includes positions of theism...

Democracy has been preferred by anarchists largely across the board because at some level, decision making must be made (i.e. concencus councils) and democratic elements provide the only means which can include everyone involved in said process. Anarchists however get around the idea by having...

Tbh, the mormon church (particularly the early years) was pretty happy to flipflop on abolition and other issues. Its sympathy for natives was also somewhat poor, as demonstrated by their treatment of the timpanago people (including the forced servitude towards the survivors).