ideology

So I know there are various ACW-related threads, but I would like to focus more impact that Confederate victory gives on the ideological aspects. For the question of how CSA won, let's assume "order 191 isn't lost" pod for the sake of scenario. For starters, these are my two cents. 1...

Hello all, I know the title is a little unclear, so let me explain. I've been thinking about Alexander the Great -- and more specifically, Alexander's role in myth, legend, religion, and literature. Alexander the Great is very rare. Not only is he identified as an important historical figure...

So the challenge, inspired by these two excellent examples (all credit to @Wolfram and @TheNixonator , respectively), is to create an alternate political party system for a country using obscure, defunct or marginal political parties or factions that existed in that country historically...

Would it be possible that, if history played out differently, that fascism was less "reactionary" and more "revolutionary"? OTL after Mussolini took power he drew close to catholic and conservative circles using them as a basis for the expansion of fascist power in society and religion. What...

*Editorial Note- Since this has been massaged as I've developed the concept I'll be going back through as I have the time to edit out typos and correct any mistakes that have cropped up!* "Power without knowledge is power lost!" - Montesquieu "Much has been said in these uncertain times about...

So this is something that occurred to me yesterday, and it deals with two major Alternate History cliches: Somehow the American Revolution gets the ball rolling on revolution in general, and is the ultimate root of all the major ideological change since then. The most prominent example is For...

Based on a bit of light reading inspired by the use of geoism in the Separated at Birth timeline, I was wondering what sequence of events could result in a (more or less) unified China that was A) a superpower roughly parallel with its impact on the world stage in OTL and B) ideologically...

What would an ideologi/movement based on the idea that the root of all evil in the world is shame and fear be called? It argues that it is the fear of one's shameful qualities and actions being revealed and the shame inbued in almost all mundande things is the reason humans are driven to...

This idea began as a joke inspired by the thread about the effects of a Cold War between fascism and liberalism on culture and politics in the West, and it got me thinking: before the New Deal was enacted there were several different currents of reformist impulses in the United States, what if...

Based on stimulating conversation in other threads, I've come up with a little challenge. It's no secret that I'm fervently into alternative ideologies and political parties and I wanted to see what you all could come up with, with a little twist: rather than just create a new ideology, I think...

What if the USSR and other Socialist powers adopted market Socialism? What would the relationship of these countries be with capitalist powers, considering the two would have a more similar economic system than between capitalism and more orthodox Socialism? Would the system be more tenable than...

Okay, so I was really bored today, and I just decided to randomly swap around the ideologies of the major world powers (America, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia) using console commands. Here's what I came up with: - Britain (and the rest of the Commonwealth): Non-Aligned (I...

In a reverse of Marxist based ideology dominating China for most of the 20th century, have some kind of ideology arising from an Asian or African thinker dominate a country in Europe, the Americas, or Australia. Bonus points if it's a country with a population greater than 100 million. Not...

How did the Nazis view/treat the Sorbian-speaking minorities in Upper Saxony? I don't seem to recall ever reading about them being targeted for persecution or assimilation, and they're still there today, so whatever policies the Nazi government had toward them must have been much milder than...

That final paragraph it struck me as having interesting AH potential, so I decided to bring up the scenario here; Say that Weber lived longer and/or started work on his 'capitalism study' earlier and managed to get it completed before he died and published before then or shortly after, with...

Open in the new tab for the background music ______________________________ 'For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.' --Roger Bacon, Opus Maius (1267 CE) 'If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?' --Voltaire, Candide (1759...

Since my more general thread didn't really I get much, I'll be more specific and straight forward. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have a Syndicalist ideology become dominant in Australia and take over - whether this be regular Syndicalism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, National...

It's not uncommon for music to have a ideological them/current, sometimes even to the point of creating its own subculture; Skinheads would be one of the most obvious examples of this. However, despite the political nature music can take, despite the connections some genres have to certain...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create circumstances in which "rule by/through drugs" is the modus operandi of at least one government. I don't mean something like Mexico where you have a bunch of powerful drug cartels, nor do I mean that the government is essentially one...

On the wave of the communist Hitler, Socialist Mussolini and Social Democrat Mosley scenario's I came with a idea: What if Karl Marx was a "reactionary"? Since this term is to ample, in this certain case reactionary means someones that strongly wants the restoration of the old (pre napoleonic)...