Alternate Ideological Strains of Proto-*Fascism

And, yeah, the Ulster Volunteers, Serbia, the Young Turks, the imperial nationalists of Japan, the Chinese anti-Manchu movement, there's no shortage of possible candidates.
I like how we got all these nationalists groups listed along with just plain 'Serbia'. :p
 
With the backstory listed, its possible that Prussia will have a violent anti-Junker proto-fascist movement.

The *fascists would mobilise the working class against the Junkers and the aristocracy, in a kind of "These people are traitors to Germany and drove us into a war for their own greed, then lost because they are incompetent." type thing. What you'd end up with is a violent, nationalist ideology that is simultaneously violently republican and anti-aristocratic.

The guiding idea could be the unity of all Germans of any class against the foreigners squatting on German soil. They might also be militant atheists (or at least anti-Protestant, if its coming from Prussia) as well, depending on how and what the major churches do in response to them.

*USA is unlikely to go too far to the right, considering its lost the South and Midwest to foreign powers and the entire country is basically New England and the Great Lakes region, which are traditionally quite liberal.

Canada possibly could, if its only Ontario. It might have picked up some form of Manifest Destiny at some point, and then if it lost Quebec and the West it would go ultranationalist very fast.
 
Posted in "Entirely Original Alternate Ideologies", but thought it might fit here (or "Civicism" would anyway):

Back when I was thinking a lot about how history might have turned out if the American Revolution failed (Saratoga PoD), I could actually see modern political thinking splitting into two major ideological camps by the end of the 19th Century (in lieu of "liberalism" and "socialism" as OTL):

Aristocratic Republicanism, or simply known as "republicanism" TTL, which advocates republican structures for the purpose of empowering the "better sorts" -- in most societies to be taken as an elite of property owners (a la Locke's conception, early America, etc), though there are nations that conceive it more narrowly (eg the Republic of (Southern) Africa, which sets the white settlers up to rule over the native Africans).

Social Monarchy -- or simply known as "monarchism" TTL, which sees the role of the monarch to intervene in government (or simply rule it in its absolutist form) in the interests of the most vulnerable -- the poor over the rich, women and children over men, etc -- and thus serve as unifier of the country. And of course, connected to the idea of a paternalistic monarchy is that elites (political, economic, and otherwise) should be paternalistic and devoted to those below them, etc.

"Civicism" -- If these two come to emerge as the primary movers of the later 19th Century, they could also see a form of synthesis between them emerge as a powerful force, potentially dominating the 20th Century. Where TTL saw "Republicanism" seek an enforced unity through horizontal power structures among a (more or less) meritocratic *elite*, and "Monarchy" seek an all encompassing unity through vertical structure of a strong executive, this new approach seeks to bind all elements society hierarchically and meritocratically, through expansions of institutions like the military. (This comes to share many similarities with OTL's fascism.)

Liberal Democracy would, TTL, be an intriguing, but largely untested (and thus considered fringe) concept, akin to OTL's anarchism or syndicalism...
 
I like how we got all these nationalists groups listed along with just plain 'Serbia'. :p

Well, it was the country where power passed into the hands of a batshit nuts ultranationalist clique by way of a coup that involved assassinating a king not sufficiently nationalistic before 1914. It's kind of an outlier that way.
 
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