Judging by the fact that the CSA cannot have someone to the right of radsoc ever win an election suggests that there is in fact at least some level of, shall we say, "guiding people" to "make the right decision", which indicates at least authdem levels of authoritarianism. Same for all the other internationalle nations with election events.
Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg
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That map is just wrong. Castile, Madrid and Extremadura are some of the most conservative areas of Spain (along with Melilla/Ceuta, the islands, Galicia and Leon), so it is just non-sensical for a liberal republic to be based there. Also, Asturias and Pais Vasco were industrial mining areas, and Asturias especially was a bastion of socialism and left-wing politics. Also, there was no industry in Murcia and Andalusia so I fail to see how CNT-FAI take control there. I agree that removing the Carlists was the right decision, as any Carlist Revolt in the 30s would have been tiny and easily crushed.
Don't worry Comrade, anarcho-syndicalist democracy works so perfectly no one would ever dare vote against the status quo.
Most of the US population is soclib and soccon, followed by the socdems.
The CSA is similar to Long AUS as a guided democracy to keep the radsocs and the syndicalists in power on a similar way to what Long does to keep the autdems.
Thomas is my favorite CSA leader by far. He's even from the same church as I
This is the best explanation i could find on reddit. In general, northern Spain leaned (and still leans) more right then the South. One reason for this is agricultural land in the North tended to be fairly evenly distributed among peasant smallholders. Socialism had no strong appeal for them. Southern agriculture was more dominated by huge estates worked by landless or very poor peasants, who were very prone to radicalization.
Also simply the military is deployed there, so this counters left wing miners.
The best reddit explanation i can find is that south was historically under republican control.
Madrid in our timeline had the Republican advantage of them being the government facing an uprising rather than the other way around. But if another teaser is accurate to the situation as soon as troops are event-spawned, then Madrid is extremely close to the early frontline.
I can't really speak for the south because I don't know a huge amount about it, but Northern Spain is not one cohesive region. You have extremely conservative, rural and poor Galicia, which was the home of Franco and probably the most conservative part of Spain today, perhaps excepting Melilla and Ceuta. Then there is Asturias. Asturias is very mountainous making it hard to occupy, as the Arabs found out in the Battle of Covadonga. Even Roman control was very tenous there. It is also one of the few sources of coal in Spain, so was a base for trade unionist activism in the turbulent Restoracion. However, the capital of the province, Oviedo, is a right wing city, in opposition to the province. Cantabria is conservative, but not to the same extent as Galicia, and is basically an extension of Castile. Then you have the Basque Country. It is also industrial so left-wing but the Basques are proud of their unique culture, which in this period was tied to Carlism. Now the Carlists have been removed, it would most likely fall into the Syndie camp.
Iotl the Republic was the status quo, while the Kingdom is the status quo in Kaiserreich. These regions are pretty conservative and would not support a secular, liberal republic, which would probably see more support in Andalusia, Murcia and Valencia.
The Carlists haven’t been removed, in the rework they instead throw their lot in with the Royalists and have the option to coup them after the civil war is won.
Monarchists, republicans and socialists are the umbrella factions.
Other than that, the only official info we have is that monarchists are split between Alfonsists and Carlists, and that, according to a dev livestream, Carlists have three viable factions within themselves - Integralist NatPops, more moderate PatAuts, and AuthDems who only pay lip service to the rest of Carlists - plus a fourth Carlist faction (I think they are Catalan Carlists) who will be able to decide which of the other three factions comes on top if they had reached an impasse.
Unofficially, there was a leak for the entire rework months ago, but supposedly, even at that point, it was out severely out of date.
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Would you vote to bring back slavery or feudalism? This is how bringing back capitalism would go in a functional socialist society.
The level of coercion is about as high as the 14th amendment.
It's probably more a case of all the people who oppose the new socialist system not being interested in participating in its elections, having taken up arms against it or having fled. I imagine people who took arms or offered support to people fighting against the CSA may not be welcome in the voting booth, but that's about it.
I'm not so sure about that, the CSA had quite a few years to go before they can claim to be at the "things are so good no one bothers to vote against us anyways" stage. Maybe they can reach that by the end of the game but for the first few elections, there would definitely be a decent chance of the socialists outright losing a completely fair election, especially if they take over the PSA which did not have the personal experience of the horrors of Long and MacArthur to turn them away from the right.Would you vote to bring back slavery or feudalism? This is how bringing back capitalism would go in a functional socialist society.
The level of coercion is about as high as the 14th amendment.
It's probably more a case of all the people who oppose the new socialist system not being interested in participating in its elections, having taken up arms against it or having fled. I imagine people who took arms or offered support to people fighting against the CSA may not be welcome in the voting booth, but that's about it.
The west coast in fact had a lot of labour activity OTL and the fact the PSA sweep that under the rug should probably lead to it bubbling up all at once when the CSA walks in.
I didn't really think about how they'd run territory they had to reconquer late in the war though, so that's my bad. I expect what I said to be mostly correct in the territory they start with or quickly liberate from the federal junta. The south is very likely to undergo something akin to the aborted plans for reconstruction, with disenfranchisement of planters and a lot of state support for CSA leaning black people to break the reactionary domination that lead to the AUS in the first place.
And syndicalism worked perfectly, no good people ever missed free market capitalism, and everyone lived happily ever after. The End.
Face it. The majority (or even just a significant minority. 45% is still significant) of people are going to want to return to a non interventionist free market capitalist system for at least 10 years. And that requires a significant amount of disenfranchisement to just sweep under the rug and ignore that. Labor activity and Progressivism =/= Socialism. And it certainly doesn't mean everyone in areas with labor activities are labor unionists or even fond of unionism.
Face it. The majority (or even just a significant minority. 45% is still significant) of people are going to want to return to a non interventionist free market capitalist system for at least 10 years. And that requires a significant amount of disenfranchisement to just sweep under the rug and ignore that. Labor activity and Progressivism =/= Socialism. And it certainly doesn't mean everyone in areas with labor activities are labor unionists or even fond of unionism.
The one thing in KR that gets me is the idea that the SPD doesn't get a win in the Reichstag until the game starts. I mean, even with the victory and peace, there should have been at least one SPD Chancellor before 1936. I mean Britain went from victory in WW1 with frankly even better domestic situations than Germany did ITTL and it elected a Labour government.