AHC: Put the world into the following ideological blocks

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North America and Western Europe: Capitalist Oligarchy

Eastern Europe and Russia: Marxist-Leninist Communism

NorthEast Asia: Technocracy

Islamic world: Anarchism (i.e. Syndicalism, Mutualism, Democratic Confederalism, etc.)

Africa: Distributed Democracy or Council Communism

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Okay here goes, this presumes a different US involvement in World War II. If, after Pearl Harbor, Hitler doesn't blunder into declaring war on America, and Roosevelt (restricted to material support to the Allies without the excuse of German aggression) reluctantly focuses exclusively on the Japanese. Because of this focus the war in the Pacific ends with an invasion of Japan (due to the Manhattan Project not being completed in the earlier timeframe), causing immense damage to the Home Islands (including the death of the Emperor) and vast American losses in the invasion. Further committed to avenging their losses the occupation is more total, with a policy of de-bushidofication, although the US does take great pains to rebuild shattered infrastructure and disband the zaibatsu. Facing an uncertain period of material deprivation and cultural dislocation, the post-occupation government turns to Western-educated professionals to manage the continued rebuilding, becoming a deputized American partner given the unstable world situation.

In Europe, Germany gets bogged down in Russia as in OTL, eventually completely exhausting itself. Rather than risk total destruction at the hands of the Soviets, elements within the government launch a coup and sue for peace with the Allies. There's still a Communist East Germany but in the wake of territorial exchanges West Germany is quite a bit smaller than OTL. Fearing Soviet domination in Europe, American companies "magnanimously" step in to offer relief, creating a complex web of military-industrial connections. Although still democratic, the electoral systems of the West are too vulnerable to special interests, and the same elite political class contends all the elections.

Eventually the Korean War creeps around, and the Japanese, eager to live down their crushing defeat (and sort-of reconquer Korea) throw themselves into the meat grinder. Throw enough bodies and you can solve any problem, resulting in a new Korean technocratic government that tows the American (and Japanese) line. The strain of involvement in the war puts tension on the Chinese political system, slowing the response to a series of accidental famines, breeding popular discontent.

Looking to further stabilize its position and resource supply in the 1970s the USSR begins an aggressive campaign of covert support aimed at stirring up communist revolutions in the Middle East. Western corporations counter with support to status quo regimes, and with the general feeling that foreigners are meddling in local affairs, populist pressure begins seriously pushing back against traditionalists and communists alike, and in order to fend off some sort of horrible revolt some states begin devolving democratic rights to better express the popular voice. This takes some of the heat off and spreads as a viable survival strategy, with popular attitudes granting greater workers rights, tilting the scales in favor of (domestic) labor over (foreign) capital. Unions are able to use somewhat shady means to marshal the votes of their members, creating a crypto-syndicalist system.

Africa, meanwhile, is in the midst of a decolonization wave sponsored by the Soviet Union. The Allies tried to respond with Japan deputization 2- neocolonial boogaloo, attempting to create technical governments to manage the former colonies. It fails miserably, but the new African nations, wary of a similar subjugation scenario under the Soviets, reject political vanguardism and create a more broadly democratic spectrum of new nations. There's a high level of voter participation, but ethnoreligious minorities are frequently crushed under the weight of the majority.

As the world enters the 1990s the Soviet Union and the PRC both start to show cracks. The Warsaw Pact reacts with crackdowns, citing a fear of the multiple ideological enemies on every border. The Chinese Communist Party collapses under its own weight, leading to a reconquista by Nationalist forces, largely operating on a Japanese technocratic basis as a result of decades of military and economic support to the island. China divides into several successor states, most of which create their own technical managerial states.

There you go, far from plausible but it works.
 

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Okay here goes, this presumes a different US involvement in World War II. If, after Pearl Harbor, Hitler doesn't blunder into declaring war on America, and Roosevelt (restricted to material support to the Allies without the excuse of German aggression) reluctantly focuses exclusively on the Japanese. Because of this focus the war in the Pacific ends with an invasion of Japan (due to the Manhattan Project not being completed in the earlier timeframe), causing immense damage to the Home Islands (including the death of the Emperor) and vast American losses in the invasion. Further committed to avenging their losses the occupation is more total, with a policy of de-bushidofication, although the US does take great pains to rebuild shattered infrastructure and disband the zaibatsu. Facing an uncertain period of material deprivation and cultural dislocation, the post-occupation government turns to Western-educated professionals to manage the continued rebuilding, becoming a deputized American partner given the unstable world situation.

In Europe, Germany gets bogged down in Russia as in OTL, eventually completely exhausting itself. Rather than risk total destruction at the hands of the Soviets, elements within the government launch a coup and sue for peace with the Allies. There's still a Communist East Germany but in the wake of territorial exchanges West Germany is quite a bit smaller than OTL. Fearing Soviet domination in Europe, American companies "magnanimously" step in to offer relief, creating a complex web of military-industrial connections. Although still democratic, the electoral systems of the West are too vulnerable to special interests, and the same elite political class contends all the elections.

Eventually the Korean War creeps around, and the Japanese, eager to live down their crushing defeat (and sort-of reconquer Korea) throw themselves into the meat grinder. Throw enough bodies and you can solve any problem, resulting in a new Korean technocratic government that tows the American (and Japanese) line. The strain of involvement in the war puts tension on the Chinese political system, slowing the response to a series of accidental famines, breeding popular discontent.

Looking to further stabilize its position and resource supply in the 1970s the USSR begins an aggressive campaign of covert support aimed at stirring up communist revolutions in the Middle East. Western corporations counter with support to status quo regimes, and with the general feeling that foreigners are meddling in local affairs, populist pressure begins seriously pushing back against traditionalists and communists alike, and in order to fend off some sort of horrible revolt some states begin devolving democratic rights to better express the popular voice. This takes some of the heat off and spreads as a viable survival strategy, with popular attitudes granting greater workers rights, tilting the scales in favor of (domestic) labor over (foreign) capital. Unions are able to use somewhat shady means to marshal the votes of their members, creating a crypto-syndicalist system.

Africa, meanwhile, is in the midst of a decolonization wave sponsored by the Soviet Union. The Allies tried to respond with Japan deputization 2- neocolonial boogaloo, attempting to create technical governments to manage the former colonies. It fails miserably, but the new African nations, wary of a similar subjugation scenario under the Soviets, reject political vanguardism and create a more broadly democratic spectrum of new nations. There's a high level of voter participation, but ethnoreligious minorities are frequently crushed under the weight of the majority.

As the world enters the 1990s the Soviet Union and the PRC both start to show cracks. The Warsaw Pact reacts with crackdowns, citing a fear of the multiple ideological enemies on every border. The Chinese Communist Party collapses under its own weight, leading to a reconquista by Nationalist forces, largely operating on a Japanese technocratic basis as a result of decades of military and economic support to the island. China divides into several successor states, most of which create their own technical managerial states.

There you go, far from plausible but it works.

It's not exactly what the ideal of those ideologies are buuuuuut it's fine. It works. Have a like :)
 
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