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I am for! I'm afraid in the East Asian games is not enough.
By the way - I have an idea. While this is a rough draft, but all the same ...
Chronology of the post-war Japanese culture:
1. 40 th - early 50's.
"Fighting for the New Art"
The fight against the "imperial mentality". Thriving avant-garde "art." Academics imitate European styles.
2. 50 th - early 60's.
Development Program "national art." The combination of the "revolutionary" subject to national traditions (think china cultural revolution). There is a huge number of traditional music ensembles. Many papers are devoted to folklore. Full of children's cartoon characters from Japanese legends. "Near sight" is dominated by fiction.
3. 60 th - early 70's.
The revival of "national" in academic art. After the arrival of Yuri Gagarin's space theme thrives. The occurrence of the Japanese school space fiction.
4. 70th.
Mitigation of the political regime. The liberalization of the spiritual culture.
SFRY - 2 out of 3 voting right. It will be difficult due to the fact that this multi-ethnic state. But I will try.
Party "Yugoslav Unity". (Парти "југословенског јединства", Stranka "jugoslavenske zajednice", Stranka "jugoslovanski Edinost")
Founded: 1985
Ideology: Social conservatism, Yugoslav chauvinism.
Political position: far-right (SFRY), Centrists (International)
International Affiliation: European People's Party
Official Color: Gold
Youth Wing: National Front (Nacionalni Front, nacionalna fronta, Национални фронт)
Party Newspaper: Велика Југославија, Združena Jugoslavija, Velika Jugoslavija
Capital Punishment: supports using death penalty against rapists, pedophiles, human traffickers and counterrevolutionaries
Civil Defense: supports increased regional autonomy regarding civil defense programs
Cultural Stance: universally opposed to the values of the Cultural Leap as "hedonistic". Yu keeps contact with the various national churches (but as a result of this policy, they are torn between the Serbian Orthodox, Croatian Catholics and Bosnian Muslims).
Defense: Unified Yugoslav Army.
Drug Policy: universally opposed to any softening regarding drugs
Economy: supports a mixed economy, with economic sectors linked to national defense being under the government's administration while all other economic sectors controlled by workers' councils
Education: supports increased local control over educational policy, in order to remove "satanic" and "counterrevolutionary" values
Environment: considers efforts to limits climate change and ecological devastation to be harmful to the communities' economic well-being
Foreign Aid: supports using foreign aid to build strong alliances that benefit the people of the Yugoslavia
Foreign Alliances: supports strenghtening relationships with the UASR and the People's Republic of China
Health Policy: supports a fully state-controlled healthcare system
Immigration: middle-of-the road, leaning towards tight border control
Social Welfare: supports welfare at state level, controlled by the regional governments.
Taxation: supports revenue to come from renting of public property to workers' councils
Trade: supports trade that favors national an regional production.
League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Savez komunista Jugoslavije, Савез комуниста Југославије, Zveza komunistov Jugoslavije, Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија)
Founded:1919
Ideology: Titoism.
Political position: center-right (USSR), left (international)
International Affiliation: Comintern
Official Color: Red
Youth Wing: League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (Savez komunističke omladine Jugoslavije)
Party Newspaper: Борба
Capital Punishment: continues to support using the death penalty against counterrevolutionary crimes and opposes efforts of provincial governments to abolish it
Civil Defense: supports a strong, state-sponsored military training program for minors
Cultural Stance: strongly supports the Cultural Leap's values.
Defense: Unified Yugoslav Army.
Drug Policy: supports decriminalization of soft drugs, combined with programs to combat addiction
Economy: Initially, the ideologues of market socialism, currently expected at the transition to decentralized planning.
Education: increased support for regional control of schools and universitie
Environment: considers efforts to limits climate change and ecological devastation to be harmful to the communities' economic well-being
Foreign Aid: supports using foreign aid to build strong alliances that benefit the people of the Yugoslavia
Foreign Alliances: supports strenghtening relationships with the UASR and the People's Republic of China
Health Policy: supports a workers' councils-run health system
Immigration: generally favoring open borders
Social Welfare: the Communists have been the architects of the modern Soviet welfare state, from child support subsidies, universal healthcare and public ownership of housing programs
Taxation: supports replacing taxes with production quotas, with substancial material to be requisitioned by the state to sustain the military
Trade: Free Trade.
Croatian Socialist Party (Hrvatska socijalistička stranka)
Founded: 1983
Ideology: Christian Socialism, Left Nationalism, Populism.
Political position: The center-left (SFRY), Left (International).
International Affiliation: Socialist International
Official Color: Green
Youth Wing: Croatian Patriots (Hrvatski Patriots)
Party Newspaper: Novo vrijeme
Capital Punishment: strongly opposed
Civil Defense: supports a goverment-sponsered military training program for minors
Cultural Stance: middle-of-the road, but strongly conservative-leaning, emphasizes the role of the Catholic Church in the Croatian cultural development
Defense: Independent Croatian Army.
Drug Policy: universally opposed to any softening regarding drugs
Economy: supports a mixed economy, with economic sectors linked to national defense being under the government's administration while all other economic sectors controlled by workers' councils
Education: supports increased regional influence over educational policy
Environment: Particular attention is paid to the protection and preservation of the Croatian nature.
Foreign Aid: supports using foreign aid to built strong alliances
Foreign Alliances: supports strenghtening relationships with the UASR and the People's Republic of China
Health Policy: supports a fully state-controlled healthcare system
Immigration: middle-of-the road, leaning towards tight border control
Social Welfare: supports welfare at state level, controlled by the regional governments.
Taxation: supports revenue to come from renting of public property to workers' councils
Trade: supports trade that favors national an regional production.
The Yugoslav Radical Union (Jugoslavenska radikalna zajednica, Jugoslovenska radikalna unije, Југословенската радикална унија, Jugoslovanska Radikalna unija)
Founded:1980
Ideology: Marxism-DeLeonism, Libertarian Socialism.
Political position: left (SFRY), far-left (international)
International Affiliation: Communist International
Official Color: Black
Youth Wing: Radical Youth (radikalan Omladinska, radikalna mladih, радицал младих)
Party Newspaper: Красныи Рассвет
Capital Punishment: universally opposed
Civil Defense: supports a civilian-run military training program, financied by the workers' councils
Cultural Stance: strong support for Cultural Leap's values, with stronger focus on supporting Soviet culture, arts and heritage
Defense: universally opposed to state-controlled military, the RSP believe in a militia-based defense
Drug Policy: supports decriminalization of soft drugs, combined with programs to combat addiction
Economy: universally opposed to any government involvement in the economy, and supports greater independence for the workers' councils
Education:supports greater regional control of educational policy
Environment:Radicals support the creation of a workers' council-run committee to develop public policy in order to combat enviromental degradation
Foreign Aid: Radicals often support cutting foreign aid in order to trim the government budget
Foreign Alliances: support greater autonomy for the state-members regarding international affairs
Immigration: generally restrictive immigration policy
Social Welfare: the party supports public programs in order to combat homelessness and hunger at home
Taxation: universally opposed
Trade: supports greater autonomy in regional trading praticses
Anarchist Environmental League
Founded:1998
Ideology: Communalism, eco-anarchism.
Political position: far-left (SFRY), Ultra Left (International).
International Affiliation: Green International
Official Color: Dark green.
Youth Wing: Youth for a Green Society (Млади за Зеленог друштва, Omladinska za Green društvo, Младите за зелено општество,Mladi za zelenu društva )
Party Newspaper: Сабазије
Capital Punishment: universally opposed
Civil Defense: consider civil defense programs as overtly militaristic and barbaric
Cultural Stance: strong supporter of the Cultural Leap's values, the Eco-anarchists is the hotbed of feminist, queer and racial and religious minorities' identity politics
Defense: universally opposed to state-controlled military, the RSP believe in a militia-based defense
Drug Policy: Total decriminalization, combined with awareness programs and programs to combat addiction.
Economy: universally opposed to any government role in the economy, which is to be run by workers' councils
Education: advocates a total integration of the economy with the biosphere. As part of the philosophy of dialectical naturalism, it is humanity's responsibility as nature made self-aware to promote biological stability and diversity in the biosphere.
Environment: advocates a total integration of the economy with the biosphere. As part of the philosophy of dialectical naturalism, it is humanity's responsibility as nature made self-aware to promote biological stability and diversity in the biosphere.
Foreign Aid: upport foreign aid to be used to promote democratic values in developing socialist states
Foreign Alliances: philosophically internationalist to the core, and has often echoed the Socialists' support for genuine proletarian internationalism.
Immigration: supports open borders
Social Welfare: opposed to government programs, which are to be transferred into the workers' councils
Taxation: universally opposed
Trade: supports greater autonomy in regional trading praticses
Party "Yugoslav Unity". (Парти "југословенског јединства", Stranka "jugoslavenske zajednice", Stranka "jugoslovanski Edinost")
Founded: 1985
Ideology: Social conservatism, Yugoslav chauvinism.
Political position: far-right (SFRY), Centrists (International)
International Affiliation: European People's Party
Official Color: Gold
Youth Wing: National Front (Nacionalni Front, nacionalna fronta, Национални фронт)
Party Newspaper: Велика Југославија, Združena Jugoslavija, Velika Jugoslavija
Capital Punishment: supports using death penalty against rapists, pedophiles, human traffickers and counterrevolutionaries
Civil Defense: supports increased regional autonomy regarding civil defense programs
Cultural Stance: universally opposed to the values of the Cultural Leap as "hedonistic". Yu keeps contact with the various national churches (but as a result of this policy, they are torn between the Serbian Orthodox, Croatian Catholics and Bosnian Muslims).
Defense: Unified Yugoslav Army.
Drug Policy: universally opposed to any softening regarding drugs
Economy: supports a mixed economy, with economic sectors linked to national defense being under the government's administration while all other economic sectors controlled by workers' councils
Education: supports increased local control over educational policy, in order to remove "satanic" and "counterrevolutionary" values
Environment: considers efforts to limits climate change and ecological devastation to be harmful to the communities' economic well-being
Foreign Aid: supports using foreign aid to build strong alliances that benefit the people of the Yugoslavia
Foreign Alliances: supports strenghtening relationships with the UASR and the People's Republic of China
Health Policy: supports a fully state-controlled healthcare system
Immigration: middle-of-the road, leaning towards tight border control
Social Welfare: supports welfare at state level, controlled by the regional governments.
Taxation: supports revenue to come from renting of public property to workers' councils
Trade: supports trade that favors national an regional production.
League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Savez komunista Jugoslavije, Савез комуниста Југославије, Zveza komunistov Jugoslavije, Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија)
Founded:1919
Ideology: Titoism.
Political position: center-right (USSR), left (international)
International Affiliation: Comintern
Official Color: Red
Youth Wing: League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (Savez komunističke omladine Jugoslavije)
Party Newspaper: Борба
Capital Punishment: continues to support using the death penalty against counterrevolutionary crimes and opposes efforts of provincial governments to abolish it
Civil Defense: supports a strong, state-sponsored military training program for minors
Cultural Stance: strongly supports the Cultural Leap's values.
Defense: Unified Yugoslav Army.
Drug Policy: supports decriminalization of soft drugs, combined with programs to combat addiction
Economy: Initially, the ideologues of market socialism, currently expected at the transition to decentralized planning.
Education: increased support for regional control of schools and universitie
Environment: considers efforts to limits climate change and ecological devastation to be harmful to the communities' economic well-being
Foreign Aid: supports using foreign aid to build strong alliances that benefit the people of the Yugoslavia
Foreign Alliances: supports strenghtening relationships with the UASR and the People's Republic of China
Health Policy: supports a workers' councils-run health system
Immigration: generally favoring open borders
Social Welfare: the Communists have been the architects of the modern Soviet welfare state, from child support subsidies, universal healthcare and public ownership of housing programs
Taxation: supports replacing taxes with production quotas, with substancial material to be requisitioned by the state to sustain the military
Trade: Free Trade.
Croatian Socialist Party (Hrvatska socijalistička stranka)
Founded: 1983
Ideology: Christian Socialism, Left Nationalism, Populism.
Political position: The center-left (SFRY), Left (International).
International Affiliation: Socialist International
Official Color: Green
Youth Wing: Croatian Patriots (Hrvatski Patriots)
Party Newspaper: Novo vrijeme
Capital Punishment: strongly opposed
Civil Defense: supports a goverment-sponsered military training program for minors
Cultural Stance: middle-of-the road, but strongly conservative-leaning, emphasizes the role of the Catholic Church in the Croatian cultural development
Defense: Independent Croatian Army.
Drug Policy: universally opposed to any softening regarding drugs
Economy: supports a mixed economy, with economic sectors linked to national defense being under the government's administration while all other economic sectors controlled by workers' councils
Education: supports increased regional influence over educational policy
Environment: Particular attention is paid to the protection and preservation of the Croatian nature.
Foreign Aid: supports using foreign aid to built strong alliances
Foreign Alliances: supports strenghtening relationships with the UASR and the People's Republic of China
Health Policy: supports a fully state-controlled healthcare system
Immigration: middle-of-the road, leaning towards tight border control
Social Welfare: supports welfare at state level, controlled by the regional governments.
Taxation: supports revenue to come from renting of public property to workers' councils
Trade: supports trade that favors national an regional production.
The Yugoslav Radical Union (Jugoslavenska radikalna zajednica, Jugoslovenska radikalna unije, Југословенската радикална унија, Jugoslovanska Radikalna unija)
Founded:1980
Ideology: Marxism-DeLeonism, Libertarian Socialism.
Political position: left (SFRY), far-left (international)
International Affiliation: Communist International
Official Color: Black
Youth Wing: Radical Youth (radikalan Omladinska, radikalna mladih, радицал младих)
Party Newspaper: Красныи Рассвет
Capital Punishment: universally opposed
Civil Defense: supports a civilian-run military training program, financied by the workers' councils
Cultural Stance: strong support for Cultural Leap's values, with stronger focus on supporting Soviet culture, arts and heritage
Defense: universally opposed to state-controlled military, the RSP believe in a militia-based defense
Drug Policy: supports decriminalization of soft drugs, combined with programs to combat addiction
Economy: universally opposed to any government involvement in the economy, and supports greater independence for the workers' councils
Education:supports greater regional control of educational policy
Environment:Radicals support the creation of a workers' council-run committee to develop public policy in order to combat enviromental degradation
Foreign Aid: Radicals often support cutting foreign aid in order to trim the government budget
Foreign Alliances: support greater autonomy for the state-members regarding international affairs
Immigration: generally restrictive immigration policy
Social Welfare: the party supports public programs in order to combat homelessness and hunger at home
Taxation: universally opposed
Trade: supports greater autonomy in regional trading praticses
Anarchist Environmental League
Founded:1998
Ideology: Communalism, eco-anarchism.
Political position: far-left (SFRY), Ultra Left (International).
International Affiliation: Green International
Official Color: Dark green.
Youth Wing: Youth for a Green Society (Млади за Зеленог друштва, Omladinska za Green društvo, Младите за зелено општество,Mladi za zelenu društva )
Party Newspaper: Сабазије
Capital Punishment: universally opposed
Civil Defense: consider civil defense programs as overtly militaristic and barbaric
Cultural Stance: strong supporter of the Cultural Leap's values, the Eco-anarchists is the hotbed of feminist, queer and racial and religious minorities' identity politics
Defense: universally opposed to state-controlled military, the RSP believe in a militia-based defense
Drug Policy: Total decriminalization, combined with awareness programs and programs to combat addiction.
Economy: universally opposed to any government role in the economy, which is to be run by workers' councils
Education: advocates a total integration of the economy with the biosphere. As part of the philosophy of dialectical naturalism, it is humanity's responsibility as nature made self-aware to promote biological stability and diversity in the biosphere.
Environment: advocates a total integration of the economy with the biosphere. As part of the philosophy of dialectical naturalism, it is humanity's responsibility as nature made self-aware to promote biological stability and diversity in the biosphere.
Foreign Aid: upport foreign aid to be used to promote democratic values in developing socialist states
Foreign Alliances: philosophically internationalist to the core, and has often echoed the Socialists' support for genuine proletarian internationalism.
Immigration: supports open borders
Social Welfare: opposed to government programs, which are to be transferred into the workers' councils
Taxation: universally opposed
Trade: supports greater autonomy in regional trading praticses
Are Bulgaria and Greek Macedonia part of Yugoslavia ITTL? If so, maybe there should be some minor parties dedicated to independence or greater autonomy for these places. If not, maybe a pan-Yugoslav party calling for the peaceful unification of the Yugoslav peoples.
It depends on the word of God. I do not know the exact situation, for the same reason I do not want to do Greek party. I need confirmation that-be sure.
By the way - who launched the first satellite? Who sent the first man into space? I just inadvertently mentioned Gagarin.
I'd say no Stalin might make integration possible and that the Comintern are unifying into supranational regional entities by present day anyways but yeah,wait for any official confirmations.
That's it. By the way - I had a couple of questions. Is there any anti-religious movement UASR? Just my alternative version should say something like - "Islam and Christianity, at least I is not happy." No offense if that. And Why is ignored adventure games?
It's also possible that Yugoslavia goes full Balkan Federation, incorporating Greece and Albania as well.
I don't think so. With state atheism and functional secularism imposed, there will be no need for that.
Another thing is that moneyed religious interests groups would be butterflied away. Clear scams like prosperity gospel would be cracked down hard by the UASR's authorities as an obviously capitalist set up to rob the proletariat and televangelism would not be as popular due to the lack of profitability.
They get parties?
Other then the classic "Do what the Generalissimo says or we'll blow your goddamn head off" party?
IIRC, Stalin died a bit ahead of time, a arty strike.
Well, Taiwan also has its own party.
And started as an authoritarian one-party dictatorship. MacArthur is not immortal.
Revised series "Space". I wonder - how it will look ITL? Maybe it will be removed in the countries of the Entente? For some reason I remembered the "Trainees" by Strugatsky.
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I've long been thinking about how social norms may evolve PAST the 1970s ITTL. By that point in the UASR, polyamory and other things may become the norm. But what comes after all that you ask?
Well, that's what I intend to answer, along with a call back to my previous attempt at answering the question:
Rethinking The Family: The Rise of The Kollontaian Community
January 15, 2017
Alexandra Kollontai is name long synonymous with socialist feminism, hence the term "Kollontaian" being ascribed to anything in the liberation of woman. Before her diplomatic career, Kollontai had created some of the first state-sanctioned family planning institutions in the world in 1919, during the early years of the fledgling Soviet state. These institutions were later closed down during the Stalin years, but she would soon find an audience for her ideas in the UASR during the First Cultural Revolution of the 1930s, when birth control and contraception became the norm.
In her writing, however, Kollontai went beyond merely advocating for women's rights, often criticizing the continued maintenance of traditional families, and believed that a true communist state could only be achieved through the end of the family (But contrary to popular belief, she never advocated for free love).
Kollontai, when she died in 1952, would die not knowing how far her ideas would go. But it would not be in her native Rossiya that would provide the atmosphere for it to grow.
During the Second Cultural Revolution, more and more taboos continued to breakdown. Open marriages, single mothers, and polyamory would become acceptable behavior by the end of the 1960s. And caretakers became accepted parts of family life. But the old idea of family, with parents and their offspring, continued to persist in society, until the infamous Purdy-Hirsch Custody battle would forever redefine family law.
By declaring family an emotional and social bond, rather than anything forged by blood, the custody case pushed whole communities into challenging family structures and abandoning them.
The first community to declare what we consider to be a Kollontaian family (the term not being officially defined until Betty Friedan's 1980 book The Community) was the town of Whittier, Alaska. In 1974, the community did something remarkable: it abolished maternal and paternal ties between children and their parents, and married couples abandoned marriage ties. In a sense, every child became brother and sister, and every adult became a spouse. Perhaps no place was better prepared for this change, as its residents were already living under one roof. Literally, the entire community of little over 100 people lived and worked under one building, the Hodge Building [1]. Shopkeeper and customer, and teacher and student were at best only a few floors away, so it is no surprise that such a change was easily accepted.
By 1979, 900 communities, in places as faraway as Miami and Cheyenne, had banned old family practices as Whittier. But it would be in the most unlikely place where Kollontaian family would proliferate: Utah.
Utah's Mormons have always had a very rocky relationship with social revolution. Many Latter Day communities have (and still) discourage the consumption of alcohol, caffeine, and soft drugs. It was not until 1964 [2] that African-Americans were allowed to become priests, and the Mormon church refused to recognize homosexual unions until 1974.
But at other times, Mormons have been seemingly the most radical. Before the late 19th century, Mormons allowed polygamy almost a century before the First and Second Cultural Revolution passed them into law, and Utah was only the second territory in the nation to allow woman's suffrage in 1870. However in 1887, the old bourgeois republic, still controlled by those who lived under archaic forms of family, passed the 1887 Edmunds-Tucker Act, which not only banned polygamy, but temporarily ended the franchise for women [3] Mormon leaders were forced to abandon their beliefs in order to be allowed to join the old union.
But with the rise of the Second Cultural Revolution, otherwise reactionary figures in the Latter Day Church began embracing polygamy. Finally in 1973, Latter Day President Harold B. Lee, claiming to have had a new revelation , wrote that "Abraham, himself a servant of God, had many wives, and thus marrying man can never deter one's service of the Lord." [4]
Mormons, however, was still slow to return to state of the Great Salt Lake, until The Community brought the Kollontaian family to national attention, and soon Mormons began embracing polygamy and Kollontaian values.
In 1981, the first Kollontaian-Mormon community had been established in Altamont, Utah, with 27 adults (8 fathers, 19 mothers) and 200 children. The success of the community led to its rapid growth, as more Mormons adapted to the lifestyle long abandoned. By 1990, nearly 10 percent of children in Utah were in a Kollontaian community.
By that time, a scandal had brought the darker side to the ideals of the community. Warren Jeffs, a radical Latter-Day Saints priest, had been arrested for molesting and indoctrinating hundreds of girls in the Kollontaian family he had built in the town of Aurora. The scandal forced the Debs government to finally legally recognize Kollontaian families and communities, passing laws that allowed them, but strongly regulating them to prevent such abuses and to allow children who came of age to leave such a family if they choose to do so. The laws also established Kollontaian relationships as being 5 or more spouses, with polygamy being set at "3-4 spouses".
In spite of the scandal, the growth of the Kollontaian family continued. By 2015, it was estimated that 3.5 percent of children in the UASR were part of the Kollontaian family [5], and in Utah, the percentage had risen to 30 percent.
Decades after her death, Kollontai's writings have indeed transformed social relations in the Comintern, as more and more people have all but abandoned the social ties in favor of treating their entire community as a single unit.
[1] The OTL name is the Begich building, named after an Alaskan Congressman who had been killed in a plane crash. Here's a video if you're interested.
[2] OTL, it was 1978.
[3] Yes, that was true. Nothing would underscore the hypocrisy of anti-polygamists in the 19th century and their own misogyny.
[4] I paraphrased that from Joseph Smith's own OTL "revelation" about polygamy.
[5] 2-3 million children, by my calculation based on OTL census figures.
Well, that's what I intend to answer, along with a call back to my previous attempt at answering the question:
Rethinking The Family: The Rise of The Kollontaian Community
January 15, 2017
Alexandra Kollontai is name long synonymous with socialist feminism, hence the term "Kollontaian" being ascribed to anything in the liberation of woman. Before her diplomatic career, Kollontai had created some of the first state-sanctioned family planning institutions in the world in 1919, during the early years of the fledgling Soviet state. These institutions were later closed down during the Stalin years, but she would soon find an audience for her ideas in the UASR during the First Cultural Revolution of the 1930s, when birth control and contraception became the norm.
In her writing, however, Kollontai went beyond merely advocating for women's rights, often criticizing the continued maintenance of traditional families, and believed that a true communist state could only be achieved through the end of the family (But contrary to popular belief, she never advocated for free love).
Kollontai, when she died in 1952, would die not knowing how far her ideas would go. But it would not be in her native Rossiya that would provide the atmosphere for it to grow.
During the Second Cultural Revolution, more and more taboos continued to breakdown. Open marriages, single mothers, and polyamory would become acceptable behavior by the end of the 1960s. And caretakers became accepted parts of family life. But the old idea of family, with parents and their offspring, continued to persist in society, until the infamous Purdy-Hirsch Custody battle would forever redefine family law.
By declaring family an emotional and social bond, rather than anything forged by blood, the custody case pushed whole communities into challenging family structures and abandoning them.
The first community to declare what we consider to be a Kollontaian family (the term not being officially defined until Betty Friedan's 1980 book The Community) was the town of Whittier, Alaska. In 1974, the community did something remarkable: it abolished maternal and paternal ties between children and their parents, and married couples abandoned marriage ties. In a sense, every child became brother and sister, and every adult became a spouse. Perhaps no place was better prepared for this change, as its residents were already living under one roof. Literally, the entire community of little over 100 people lived and worked under one building, the Hodge Building [1]. Shopkeeper and customer, and teacher and student were at best only a few floors away, so it is no surprise that such a change was easily accepted.
By 1979, 900 communities, in places as faraway as Miami and Cheyenne, had banned old family practices as Whittier. But it would be in the most unlikely place where Kollontaian family would proliferate: Utah.
Utah's Mormons have always had a very rocky relationship with social revolution. Many Latter Day communities have (and still) discourage the consumption of alcohol, caffeine, and soft drugs. It was not until 1964 [2] that African-Americans were allowed to become priests, and the Mormon church refused to recognize homosexual unions until 1974.
But at other times, Mormons have been seemingly the most radical. Before the late 19th century, Mormons allowed polygamy almost a century before the First and Second Cultural Revolution passed them into law, and Utah was only the second territory in the nation to allow woman's suffrage in 1870. However in 1887, the old bourgeois republic, still controlled by those who lived under archaic forms of family, passed the 1887 Edmunds-Tucker Act, which not only banned polygamy, but temporarily ended the franchise for women [3] Mormon leaders were forced to abandon their beliefs in order to be allowed to join the old union.
But with the rise of the Second Cultural Revolution, otherwise reactionary figures in the Latter Day Church began embracing polygamy. Finally in 1973, Latter Day President Harold B. Lee, claiming to have had a new revelation , wrote that "Abraham, himself a servant of God, had many wives, and thus marrying man can never deter one's service of the Lord." [4]
Mormons, however, was still slow to return to state of the Great Salt Lake, until The Community brought the Kollontaian family to national attention, and soon Mormons began embracing polygamy and Kollontaian values.
In 1981, the first Kollontaian-Mormon community had been established in Altamont, Utah, with 27 adults (8 fathers, 19 mothers) and 200 children. The success of the community led to its rapid growth, as more Mormons adapted to the lifestyle long abandoned. By 1990, nearly 10 percent of children in Utah were in a Kollontaian community.
By that time, a scandal had brought the darker side to the ideals of the community. Warren Jeffs, a radical Latter-Day Saints priest, had been arrested for molesting and indoctrinating hundreds of girls in the Kollontaian family he had built in the town of Aurora. The scandal forced the Debs government to finally legally recognize Kollontaian families and communities, passing laws that allowed them, but strongly regulating them to prevent such abuses and to allow children who came of age to leave such a family if they choose to do so. The laws also established Kollontaian relationships as being 5 or more spouses, with polygamy being set at "3-4 spouses".
In spite of the scandal, the growth of the Kollontaian family continued. By 2015, it was estimated that 3.5 percent of children in the UASR were part of the Kollontaian family [5], and in Utah, the percentage had risen to 30 percent.
Decades after her death, Kollontai's writings have indeed transformed social relations in the Comintern, as more and more people have all but abandoned the social ties in favor of treating their entire community as a single unit.
[1] The OTL name is the Begich building, named after an Alaskan Congressman who had been killed in a plane crash. Here's a video if you're interested.
[2] OTL, it was 1978.
[3] Yes, that was true. Nothing would underscore the hypocrisy of anti-polygamists in the 19th century and their own misogyny.
[4] I paraphrased that from Joseph Smith's own OTL "revelation" about polygamy.
[5] 2-3 million children, by my calculation based on OTL census figures.
Honestly I would love to see the Church of LDS turn into the default progressive Christian Church, like the Methodists in OTL. It tickles me to think of "Mormon family values" being actually wholesome and viewed as such across America.
The Presidents of the Church getting "revelations" that women and men are equal in the family and church and the homosexuals and transgender people aren't doing anything wrong would be great.
Mixed-gender bike missionaries wearing mandarin-collared suits spreading the word makes me giggle.
I can hear the Bishops going on about "so-called Christians" who don't even believe in socialism and destruction of the patriarchy already!
The Presidents of the Church getting "revelations" that women and men are equal in the family and church and the homosexuals and transgender people aren't doing anything wrong would be great.
Mixed-gender bike missionaries wearing mandarin-collared suits spreading the word makes me giggle.
I can hear the Bishops going on about "so-called Christians" who don't even believe in socialism and destruction of the patriarchy already!
Bulldoggus
Banned
Makes sense. The reason these things are so rigidly differentiated OTL is because they've never been systems of government (and I don't think a couple of short-lived experiments or communes in the sticks count). TTL, since people actually have to, y'know, govern, people will blend whatever works, and adherents to these ideas won't be as rock-ribbed.