Best pods for a communist America

So as said here what are the best Points of divergence for a communist America

Probably pre-1900 for the socioeconimic conditions that give rise to Communism, even if Communism itself doesn't take power until post-1900.

Given that Communism has tended to do best in countries with a lower degree of industrialization, maybe find a way to get America less industrialized. Not sure how you'd do that.
 

Polemarchos

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The dispersal of The Bonus Army is more violent than otl, leading to mass abstentions in the lead up to world war two. The Japanese win Midway, making the war in the Pacific longer and more bloody. Eventually whites and coloreds start shooting each other whenever morale gets low. Meanwhile FDR dies in office when his VP is still a southerner opposed to elements of the New Deal.
 
There's probably a lot pre-1900 but I'd actually point at joining World War I in 1914 as the best one. Let the war go on long enough that a serious anti-war movement can emerge, the anti-war forces in OTL ended up being some of the founding forces of the Communist Party. From there I think what would be key is to have a non-Moscow man in charge of the CP, so James Cannon securing leadership of the party would be a good second step. The final major change would probably be to keep the IWW healthy. It was always the element of the communist movement which most had its finger on the pulse of what Americans responded to and would serve as a key organizing element of the communist party.

From there the course of the timeline could be constructed to put the communist party (established with stronger foundations) into power in the 1930s as a consequence of the Great Depression.
 
There's probably a lot pre-1900 but I'd actually point at joining World War I in 1914 as the best one. Let the war go on long enough that a serious anti-war movement can emerge, the anti-war forces in OTL ended up being some of the founding forces of the Communist Party. From there I think what would be key is to have a non-Moscow man in charge of the CP, so James Cannon securing leadership of the party would be a good second step. The final major change would probably be to keep the IWW healthy. It was always the element of the communist movement which most had its finger on the pulse of what Americans responded to and would serve as a key organizing element of the communist party.

From there the course of the timeline could be constructed to put the communist party (established with stronger foundations) into power in the 1930s as a consequence of the Great Depression.

How would you get the US in though?
 
The great depression if thing had been handled worse if america's elite had refused to bend then it could have happened.
 
How would you get the US in though?

Third term for Teddy Roosevelt is the easiest way. Dude was probably Americas greatest warmonger, and in the context of things would probably push for intervention just to get something out of it.
 
Third term for Teddy Roosevelt is the easiest way. Dude was probably Americas greatest warmonger, and in the context of things would probably push for intervention just to get something out of it.

Difficulty here is that early American involvement means a much, much shorter war - and that means that the Russian Empire isn't likely to fall to communism.
 
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