So have Distributism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism) Replace Socialism as the rival to capitalism in the 20th century. Bonus points for being creative with your timeline.
AHC: Have Distributism replace Socialism in the 20th century
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As far as Europe's concerned, you probably could have this happen with the right political maneuvering at the First International. See a greater split between Anarchists and Socialists, with Marx' faction being a center that cannot hold. From there, the Anarchists refuse to participate in electoral politics, essentially becoming proto-Impossibilists, and the Socialists abandon their hostility to religious ideas pretty early on. The Socialists from there cooperate with the more liberal-religious thinkers in Europe and distributism or something functionally similar to it becomes the dominant ideology of the European left.
In America, it's if anything even easier. It probably isn't impossible to get a William Jennings Brian victory in 1896 or otherwise, and from there to have either the Dems adopting Populist policies or the Populists supplanting one of the other two parties on the national stage. Likely, especially if they are in discourse with a stronger European distributist movement, they functionally develop quite similarly.
In America, it's if anything even easier. It probably isn't impossible to get a William Jennings Brian victory in 1896 or otherwise, and from there to have either the Dems adopting Populist policies or the Populists supplanting one of the other two parties on the national stage. Likely, especially if they are in discourse with a stronger European distributist movement, they functionally develop quite similarly.
So if distributism rivals capitalism in this world lets just say Distributism does not catch on in America...which countries would flip to distributism and which won't across the world, if a similar ww1 happen?. Who would be the main distributist powers and who would be the main capitalist powers during a possible cold war?
Isn't Christian Democracy 2018 basically the dliuted offspring of Distributism, in the same way that socialism 2018 is the diluted offspring of(among others) Marxism?
I'll have something of the like in my Red and Green Russia TL. Possible beacons for a distributist model are any narodnik/neo-narodnik Russia and Mexico, possibly a left KMT China, too. Romania as a smaller country, too. Interesting interaction with industrialised countries' co-operativist, social credit etc. movements possible (and required if it is to be a viable replacement for socialism as an answer to the troubles of the industrial Proletariat, too).