GURPS Lenin-3 plausibility check

Mussolini stayed Communist and his government supported the Catalan workers, who were the anti-Soviet, anti-Fascist "third force" in Spain during the 1936-1939 war. Mexico's Cardenas brought his own socialist government into Mussolini's "anti-Moscow Socialist Axis" in 1938 and Mussolini's Axis stayed neutral during the "inter-fascist struggle" of World War II. The U.S.-U.K. alliance took an increasingly technocratic stance after the war, and launched a series of huge government "Manhattan Initiatives", intending projects like the Moon shots, fuel cell cars (Iran's socialist government joined the Axis in 1953), and the Concord stratojet to maintain the West's lead, even after the Soviet collapse of the 1960s. Now in 2004, the world is decades behind OTL in some areas like agriculture and personal electronics and decades ahead in others like moon bases, fuel cells and supersonic aircraft.
Plausible?
 
This scenario suffers from massive amounts of parallelism and seems to have utilized a high quality butterfly net. You have more than 1000 posts however, so perhaps that was intentional? Let me just comment on the issues I see with it.

Mussolini stayed Communist and his government

Mussolini only became the leader of Italy because the King put him and his Fascists in charge of the country. There's no chance the King will ever appoint a Socialist as leader, and so there's no reason to assume Mussolini will still rise to power.

supported the Catalan workers, who were the anti-Soviet, anti-Fascist "third force" in Spain during the 1936-1939 war. Mexico's Cardenas brought his own socialist government into Mussolini's "anti-Moscow Socialist Axis" in 1938

The European powers probably won't look kindly on a Socialist Italy which apparently intends to spread the revolution to other countries by force the moment they show weakness. I don't know if this kind of adventurism would be allowed. On a related note, I don't think the US would allow Mexico to join an alliance of interventionist Socialist states.

and Mussolini's Axis stayed neutral during the "inter-fascist struggle" of World War II.

Is there really any chance of Italy staying neutral in World War II? Seeing how you've pretty much ignored butterflies this far, I'm assuming Hitler is still in charge of Germany in this scenario, meaning it'll be fiercely anti-Communist and therefore probably unwilling to let Socialist Italy exist right on its border.

Can't really comment on technology.
 
Mussolini stayed Communist and his government supported the Catalan workers, who were the anti-Soviet, anti-Fascist "third force" in Spain during the 1936-1939 war. Mexico's Cardenas brought his own socialist government into Mussolini's "anti-Moscow Socialist Axis" in 1938 and Mussolini's Axis stayed neutral during the "inter-fascist struggle" of World War II. The U.S.-U.K. alliance took an increasingly technocratic stance after the war, and launched a series of huge government "Manhattan Initiatives", intending projects like the Moon shots, fuel cell cars (Iran's socialist government joined the Axis in 1953), and the Concord stratojet to maintain the West's lead, even after the Soviet collapse of the 1960s. Now in 2004, the world is decades behind OTL in some areas like agriculture and personal electronics and decades ahead in others like moon bases, fuel cells and supersonic aircraft.
Plausible?

I guess this might be possible with a lot of hand-waving and additional details: maybe Mussolini stayed Communist, and when he took over Italy he replaced the monarch, and then backs the Catalan workers. I find it unlikely that an axis of Italy-Mexico-Iran-Catalonia can compete on the same level as the US-UK alliance in a cold war, which is what the scenario seems to be implying. But this scenario is so short on details that it's hard to say if it's possible: after all, it does not technically state that Mussolini's Socialist axis has survived till the present day, it doesn't mention how decolonization went, etc.
 
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