How likley was it, retrospectively, for a philoshopy like communism to emerge? Simply, from around 1700 OTL, was it likely within the scope of most plausible TL's not involving massive setbacks in human development for something like it to emerge? Or would it be considered an anomaly in most plausible ATL's, something that was, in retrospect, unlikley to emerge....
Essentially, is it a natural by-product of any industrial revolution and world-wide industrial growth, seeing as that tends to cause social stratification....
Secondly, how likley, in retrospect, was it for such a philoshophy to actually gain control, let alone in a major state like Russia, and have a real chance at becoming the dominant economic philosophy(which it failed to do our TL)?
A poll is coming.