Could Libya have become an Italian *Taiwan?

Let me explain. There was a lot of left-wing agitation within the Kingdom of Italy during the Biennio Rosso from 1919 through 1920. In a world where this has led to a successful socialist revolution in Italy during this timeframe (this would probably be more likely had the Revolutions of 1917-1923 successfully established communist rule in places like Germany, Hungary, etc), what would have become of Italy's Libyan colony?

Could the monarchy, military, and socioeconomic elite have successfully fled to the colony and established it as a rump state for the Kingdom of Italy, in the same way that Chiang Kai-Shek's Chinese Nationalist forces were able to evacuate to Taiwan after the Mao won on the mainland? Was the infrastructure in Libya have been in place for such an evacuation? Or would it have been more likely for the colony to be seized by the new left-wing Italian government, or by another colonial power like Britain or France?
 
Libya was having a successful revolt during that time which would only be crushed by Mussolini. If the mainland fell the colony would fall to the Senussi .
 
Libya was having a successful revolt during that time which would only be crushed by Mussolini. If the mainland fell the colony would fall to the Senussi .

I very much agree with you. I’ve just seen another thread exploring the plausibility of Queen Wilhelmina forming a government in exile in the Dutch East Indies. I think these AH scenarios deeply misunderstand the diverse forms of colonialism; Libya to Italy ≠ Algeria to France just like how the Netherlands to DEI ≠ UK to Canada.
 
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