Alternate ideologies?

DeLeonism is definitely an interesting one to play with given its combination of syndicalism and democratic socialism, but I'm not sure how you'd make it any kind of major player. Especially since DeLeon himself was kind of a dogmatic asshole and really difficult to work with.

Speaking of syndicalism, I really like the idea of it replacing communism as the predominant ideology of the global left a la Kaiserreich.

It'd be interesting to see a more explicitly political understanding of Sobornost take root in Russia beyond certain segments of the Church and intelligentsia.
 
Speaking of syndicalism, I really like the idea of it replacing communism as the predominant ideology of the global left a la Kaiserreich.

I had a fun idea for a Syndicalist Britain timeline...

The PoD was going to be a worse harvest in Britain in 1918, straining the food situation even more and generating more unrest that would boil over by 1920 or so, triggering a full British revolution...

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Technocracy, Inc. People who think Brave New World was a utopia, plus an energy-backed currency and replacing nationalism with "continentalism" (they wanted the US to annex Canada, Mexico, and various bits of Central America and the Caribbean). Fascism for people who fetishize engineers instead of soldiers, basically. Had a brief heyday in the '30s, though a small remnant has hung on until today.

Italian Futurism. Pre-fascist movement in the 1910s; primarily an artistic movement, but had stridently nationalist, militarist inclinations, plus a worship of technology and industrialism. With a delayed or prevented WW1, could maybe have become something.

Social Therapy. I may be misrepresenting them, as I don't know much about them beyond the wiki article, but they seem like a combination of Freud and Marx: the revolution will be achieved through psychoanalysis.

A few more that probably couldn't have gotten big, but are too entertaining not to mention:

Yellowism. An artistic movement primarily known for vandalism. Best described as the Platonic ideal of the insufferable art school manifesto.

Anarcho-Primitivism. Believe that the agricultural revolution was when everything really went wrong. You know you can trust an ideology whose best known adherent is a domestic terrorist.

Anarcho-Fascism. The problem with the state is that it keeps us from wiping out our racial inferiors!

Posadism. Marxist-Leninism plus UFOs and advocacy of nuclear war.

Mladorossi. Attempted hybrid of Marxist-Leninism and the Tsar. May have actually been a false flag operation by the NKVD.

Anti-Japaneseism. A group of Japanese Marxists who feel that Japan must be destroyed - wiped out entirely - because its culture is too deeply corrupt to be saved, even by a communist revolution.
 
Mladorossi. Attempted hybrid of Marxist-Leninism and the Tsar. May have actually been a false flag operation by the NKVD.

Anti-Japaneseism. A group of Japanese Marxists who feel that Japan must be destroyed - wiped out entirely - because its culture is too deeply corrupt to be saved, even by a communist revolution.

That description of Mladorossi reminds me that Tundran Territories faction from the Battalion Wars series where it's basically a combination of Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union.

Though for Anti-Japaneseism, I could imagine an American counterpart to that (where it's America that needs to be wiped out of existence) and I believe that can come to fruition in the future.
 
Though for Anti-Japaneseism, I could imagine an American counterpart to that (where it's America that needs to be wiped out of existence) and I believe that can come to fruition in the future.

There's a German version - "anti-Deutsche", I think it's called - but AFAIK they don't go so far as to want to wipe Germany out.
 
I think if Aristocracy stuck around longer it could slid pretty easily into technocacy with weighted voting systems, and dominate being "experts" in the system.
 
A relatively recent ideology that went absolutely nowhere (at least politically) is the Transcendental Meditation movement which followed the teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (yes the one who hung out with the Beatles). In 1992 a number of Natural Law parties where set up in various countries which supported the movement, but never really went anywhere. From what I can tell their policies seemed to be a mixture of opposition to nuclear power and genetic engineering (I could go into great detail why that makes them wrong, but this isn't Chat), and various vague appeals to holistic living, conflict-free politics (an oxymoron), and promoting Transcendental Meditation in schools. Like I said they never really went anywhere, partly because I don't think it was ever that committed as a political movement, although one of the prominent talking heads on the anti-GMO circuit was heavily involved with them.
 
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