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Yes your analyse is a realistic treatment of slaveholding "socialist" CSA.

Lenin argued, rather than wait for capitalism to reach it final phrase (with the disappearance of the petite-bourgeoise), where it would collapse and give way to a socialist revolution, the communist party would serve to force the necessary industrialisation on the Russian state, so that the...

It is still used that way.

USSR embraced the idea that they was the first step toward true communism; the dictatorship of the proletariat, the party served as a vanguard which should lead the proletariat next step down the road and it should deal with counter-revolutionaries with all means possible, yes it were different...

I guess I wasted several year on university, where I studied politology (plus economy and sociology), because clearly I know nothing about ideologies, and anyone can just define a ideology as whatever they want without any fucking context to their historical development and the greater world.

If people is willing to accept light blue as blue, why shouldn't they accept green as blue.

USSR was universal hated among non-communist socialists, but they still recognised it as socialist. While they didn't for a movement recognised the Nazi as socialists. If you are unable to see the difference between the Gulags and chattel slavery, you really need to read up on both, the Gulags...

No I argue against this because it show ignorance of the last 250 year of ideological development of socialism. I don't give shit about the ethical part of the question, I do give shit about this being bad alternative history, taken completely out of historical context and discussed without...

:rolleyes: Have you heard about German National Socialism? Because even with the word socialism in their name no one saw it as socialism after 1924.

I know this is hard to understand for someone which hasn't grown up in a country with existing socialist movements, but slavery is so much against the core of socialism that it simply can't be accepted or apologised. People can defend the Red Terror, Gulags or mass murder as sad necessarity on...

:rolleyes: USSR was seen as socialist, because it embraced a few very important doctrines; all people was equal and the workers owned the means of production (through the state). Unless Blacks are universal recognised as non-humans (like pigs, cattle or horses), this state will not for a...

So what, if we had integrated the Danish, Prussian or Swedish 18th century structure of governance in 18th century Poland, there was no way Russia would partitioned it, in fact it could have field a army several times the size of the French (through that's unlikely). That's what people fail to...

Yes which is why I think it will have interesting consequence if the Swedes get the entire province, while they don't have Scania, which served as first priority for Sweden to settle. In OTL the possession Sweden got was mostly strategic stronghold with some hinterland, so there was little...

Denmark will be a lot richer, the Torstensson depopulated much of Jutland, while Denmark lost around half its population in the periode 1657-1660 (1/3 killed, the rest just lived in the lost provinces). While Christian the chosen Prince will likely die before Christian IV here too, Frederik III...

Yes in fact it willl have some interesting consequences. In OTL Scania was one of the richest provinces (together with the Baltic ones) of Sweden after the conquest. Here their gain is going to be a lot different, Bremen-Verden stay under Frederik III, and is likely integrated with Holstein...

I suggest they get engaged in 1630, and Ulrik doesn't die in 1633, as such I think the alliance would stay stable. If Christian IV can see a better than average chance that his son can become king of Sweden, he will go very far to o keep the Swedes happy and not break the engagement. While for...

I think that a protestant Poland would not only survive to 1772, but it would also thrieve, in fact Poland will likely end up a major power in the 18th century.

Thanks Of course that's going to turn the situation in eastern PL a lot uglier, luckily the Russians are to weak at this point to intervene, so it gives PL a century to deal with the ugliness.

A interesting bi-effect of Ulrik on the Swedish throne is that its will likely give us decades of friendly peace between Denmark-Sweden, something which will benefit both states, Sweden will get time to consolidate its gains, while Denmark will keep it eastern province and not lose a third of...

Denmark and Sweden was allied in the early war, when Sweden entered the war, but Christian IV had a hard time being overshadowed by his Swedish neighbour. But there is a way to get around it. Christian IV had a third son Ulrik, he was in Swedish military service until he was killed, there was...