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Orwells late career is probably extraordinarily different from OTL, with such a transformative experience changed so thoroughly.

Animal farm really isn't likely to be written. The whole Spanish episode of Orwells life is likely to be totally altered, given how the Spanish revolution succeeds and survives as a rump Catalan state even after the rest of Spain falls. And the sheer lunacy going on in Barcelona OTL is not...

Yeah. But crucially the allegory of animal farm is direct. At best wizard of oz is a metaphor because it applies to literally anything due to the vagueness of the symbolism.

That's a lot of contingencies to think about and would necessitate it's own timeline to get into. Maybe? It's not like Spain and Morocco aren't proof enough the distance between the two can be basically negligible as long as it's defensible.

All of Italy is unlikely. Holding onto Sicily is very much possible though. It's a populous fertile island capable of supporting its own independence and being a major naval hub of the Mediterranean. Keeping it would probably just be a matter of avoiding serious leadership collapse and having...

Do you mean specifically Turkic peoples or just people from Central Asia. Because keeping Mikhail Frunze alive would in the very least put one Central Asian of Ethnic Russian descent around as a high ranking military leader and SOVNARKOM member around.

The problem is that you're trying to do it by making political force in Scotland at most apathetic to the monarchy into monarchists for a new monarchy under an old dynasty. You'd need to totally change the political alignment of the SNP into a more right wing nationalistic bent. But right wing...

I mean. Most Maoists are decent people. They're just wrong about most things they bother to actually talk about and woefully smug in how they approach Trotskys theories which they have almost never read. But still. I can also shut up about that as long as it doesn't come up.

Oh definitely, I can understand getting excited. But yeah, managing to fenegle my way to an account from the anthropology department helps keep things fair. Although thanks for the references and I will look into those.

Well. I'd love to go to your meetings. I'm tired of goddamn sanders stuff. And I think you guys would probably avoid that. And if I remember right you're a Trotskyist too. So it's not like I'd get unduly shat on.

So, the pod for an AH idea I'm working on for a timeline about a colonization of America that results in a better situation for the natives involves the Levellers and Diggers (two groups that evolved in the English civil war who were radically egalitarian, in favor of common ownership of land...

Yeah. But almost none of them are in SA which is where I get my contacts from for the most part.

Honestly I wish every profession had contacts for what they would want in a socialist transformation of their particular job.

Except the SNP membership is at best apathetic to monarchy at all, and even with the name, there's hundreds of years of franco-Italian-German exile in there preventing them from being seen as actually Scottish by your average bloke from Glasgow who judges it by the markers he's accumulated for...

I think transforming the social role of prostitution that much is unlikely. That kind of specified and artisan sex work is also probably common though. But I'm sure that most prostitutes will remain working class women (and increasingly during the cultural revolutions, men) working in brothels...

The relationship is probably more equitable, rather than China directly replacing Japan in any real sense. Japan still has its impact as can be drawn from the fact that we get relatively common references to ATL anime. What might change though is the form and style of anime. We've already...