AHC: Left Unity

Essentially, with a post-1900 POD, keep as much of the left as possible as United as possible. What I have in mind is the Second International not splitting, or the split being much less effective. It could need more radical social democratic parties in Europe, perhaps no Russian Revolution or a very different one. Ideally, the challenge is not only to prevent an organizational split, but keep the movement as a whole united, not only in organization but in ideology as well. If you have a good POD aim he very late -9th century, that is also welcome(though maybe the mods will have to move this, idk)
 
More ASB than Sealion tbh

But yeah, I think the Russian Revolution not succeeding would go a long way by getting rid of the serious divide between those who followed Soviet orthodoxy and those who didn’t
 
Exclude the working class and it’s interests more thoroughly from the second internationale. Bourgeois dilettantes still bicker, but party function keeps them as an electoral entity excluding a party of workers from parliaments. Stuff like the German workers councils is viewed as “post-left”
 
No Russian Revolution.

IOTL this is what caused the International Left to split, but if the Russian revolution never happens or fails miserably, then the left would continue to be marxist, social-democratic, and reformist. Anarcho-Syndicalism would remain the militant, revolutionary left, but without marxist influence (and due to its nature) it would not be political, giving Marxism a monopoly in the political sphere.
 
Essentially, with a post-1900 POD, keep as much of the left as possible as United as possible. What I have in mind is the Second International not splitting, or the split being much less effective. It could need more radical social democratic parties in Europe, perhaps no Russian Revolution or a very different one. Ideally, the challenge is not only to prevent an organizational split, but keep the movement as a whole united, not only in organization but in ideology as well. If you have a good POD aim he very late -9th century, that is also welcome(though maybe the mods will have to move this, idk)

To prevent a split of the second international you'd basically need to prevent the first world war or the attractiveness of national liberation movements and ethnic politics. Two Silesian coal miners might deserve the same labor standards, but if one speaks German and one speaks Polish they'll have two different identity based socialist movements. Interwar Czechoslovak politics worked like this in the sense that the party system was divide by ideology and ethnicity. For example, there was a Czech Social Democratic Party and a German Social Democratic Party, as well a Czech christian democratic party and a German center-right/christian democratic party.

The more heterodox revolutionary syndicalists like Mussolini were going to leave over the national question, so it's almost impossible to avoid some splitting. Italian fascism was essentially national syndicalism in its early, pre-March on Rome state.
 
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