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I think we really should put a stamp to this. This really belongs to chat. @WotanArgead I get what you are saying man but the point that i am making to Canaan still stands. The majority of commies within Reds! community online belong to either an anarchist or libertarian communist or a left...

We are not denying the atrocities committed by 20th century self-identified communism @Canaan Osborne though this conversation definitely belongs to chat. Its something that requires further space for political discussion that does not belong to this part of the site. Just a clue on where we...

Been mentioned so many times here (including on this very page) but I will gladly repeat it. Thoroughly developed for as early as the 1970s in many places. A personal example. But don't take my word for it. The Greater Indian Commonwealth ITTL by 1975 is on the level of OTL PRC by 2010. Along...

Who knows.... that is all speculative territory right now. The FBU is going to be very much alive by the time Reds! is planned to be ended. 2015-2020. It's an open ending. It's just that the capitalist Global South knows that part of what is keeping the Cold War going as well as the legitimacy...

To clarify things again. This maybe my mistake. It's not a "couple of countries". ITTL capitalism by the 2010s is still holding a whole lot of nations. A good chunk of nations to be seen in every continent. The Comintern may be holding a great deal of territorial mass but it's not holding a...

I may have to clarify a few things. The French and British investments are actually starting for as early as the 1930s, though not yet fully discussed in detail in the SV timeline. They are going the way of Japan but slowly but surely to places like South Africa and even parts of sub-Saharan...

I will try to answer this without giving away spoilers. Communist ideology ITTL is a lot more internationalist than nationalist, so the Franco-British Union can appropriately create valuable anti-communist allies not only with traditional colonial elites but with a modernizing middle class...

Mostly intact as of current plans. Around... 80% of listed here, I guess. There are some who are incorrect even from the antiquated version on this site. I think Afghanistan is never been Red to begin with. And you haven't mentioned the Latin American countries, many of which are Red, even in...

@Maponus Can we rightfully assume that the POD of the entire TL is the death of De Gaulle on May 1958?

Any radical redrawing of the American political landscape post-1970 out of a left-wing social revolution is certainly expected but as for the details of it, I will leave it more to @Maponus since he/she is the author and not myself. One thing is for sure, there wouldn't be "states" anymore and...

I certainly do not expect the UPNA to keep the US Constitution and state constitutions and all its institutions at all so we may have to see entirely new political subdivisions. What I mean is that the 50 states may be kept around for limited administrative purposes but given how some of these...

There will be cross border regions and cities for sure and they will be largely de facto independent of these reorganized state governments even if de jure they belong to different states at once or may even remain separate on paper belonging to component areas out of separate states. The old...

One thing I can see about post-revolutionary UPNA politics is that there will be some kind of a "one-coalition state" of which we are talking about the Rainbow Coalition and given the extreme diversity of parties and organizations within this Rainbow Coalition, we are going to see an extreme...

Well, I didn't say that there's no repression of right-wingers in the UPNA, especially if they are going to be associated with an ongoing right-wing insurgency movement there. That's plainly impossible not to occur. This is class struggle dynamics we are talking about here. I doubt that you...

That's the key Nyvis, "Orthodox". Western Marxism-Leninism ITTL is going to be anything but orthodox and as Wotan said, in this context, Stalinist or Khrushchevist or ITTL Suslovist, regarding political pluralism. Remember that Trotskyite Britain has a multiparty system, though it calls its...

Those are good points @Nyvis but I can imagine that "Marxism-Leninism" as we knew it IOTL is not going to apply a whole to the Western variants of Marxism-Leninism of the Way the Wind Blows at the very least. These "Marxism-Leninisms" if you will, are going to be thoroughly shaped by the...

Nope. It's not. It's Marxist-Leninist, outwardly, with inspirations coming in from the 1959 Cuban Revolution and the Chinese revolution of 1949 and maybe the romantic descriptions being heard of the 1966 Cultural Revolution and even that of the Vietnamese revolution. It's not so clearly defined...

It's a bit of both but more of the latter since I do know more than plain lurkers of threads like this, which includes you. The leftist community on AH/SV/Discord got a bit tightly-knit through the years and if you've been on threads like Reds! or this one for the past few years on the different...

I really don't understand this thing since the beginning that this has been discussed. It took a lot of pages for this discussion out of the entire thread. I just don't understand where the "iffy" vibe comes from but I will respect that you have it. This is more like speaking in behalf of...

An ITTL quote by Solon De Leon is what you may have read before; "Money is a measure of poverty". Illuminatus Primus in prior iteration of Reds! when he was still active here talked a bit about how the economic system ITTL was conceived by the then authors IP and Jello Biafra by using a bit of...