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Bulldoggus
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@The Red Iron Chef Joseph's Rhine model phased out a crisis of Keynesian stagflation in my head canon. It basically split the difference and built an economic structure the PA could agree on (although gratuitous in-party bloodletting is still a thing). ITTL, he stays interested in the Rhine Model instead of shifting to Thatcherism.
Redshank Galloglass
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That's why my character thinks it made the country better. He's a Syndicalist, but not an idiot.
Bookmark1995
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Excerpt from PBS.uasr home page.
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Reds: A Century of Communism will explore the greatest events from the century of socialism, from the Bolshevik Revolution to the modern-day in eight, 60 minute episodes on Friday 11/11.
Episode 1: The Fires of Revolt 1900-1913 (Air date 11/11 at 13:00-14:00 [1])
Learn about the conditions of early 20th century Tsarist Russia and the old American Republic, early attempts of unionization and radicalization, and the tepid reforms by so-called "progressives". [2]
Episode 2: Shaking the World 1914-1921 (Air date 11/11 at 14:00-15:00
World War I would not be the end of all wars, but it would mark the beginning of the end of the capitalist order. In Russia, the deprivations of the First World War bring down the Tsars and plunge the vast nation into civil war between proles and reactionaries, while in America, the Bienno Rosso will serve as a merely the opening act to the struggle of the worker.
Episode 3: The Bubble Bursts 1922-1933 (Air date 11/11 at 15:00-16:00)
The Soviet nation slowly consolidates power. The economic collapse of the 1930s expands the popularity of the Worker's Party in America. But an attempt by elites to defend their wealth will bring about the second worker's revolution of the 20th century.
Episode 4: Reforms and Storms 1933-1939 (Air date 11/11 at 16:00-17:00)
Socialist ideas proliferate in the fledgling Union of American Socialist Republics and its Latin American allies, and uneasy ties are forged with Soviet Russia. But in Europe, Japan, and South America, reactionary forces arise seeking to stomp out the nation of workers in the name of wealth and plunder.
Episode 5: The Moment of Truth 1940-1946 (Air date 11/11 at 17:00-18:00)
The Second World War unites bourgeois democracy and worker's democracy against the fascist horde. The horrors of Nazi Germany, Japan, and Brazil bring both decimation to the world, and new meaning to the cause of worker's liberation.
Episode 6: A World Divided 1946-1951 (Air date 11/11 at 18:00-19:00)
Hopes for post-war consensus are dashed as wartime unity between Red and Blue shatters due to capitalist hunger for wealth. Nuclear weapons force each side to hide behind a wall of weapons and surveillance.
Episode 7: Flashpoint 1952-1989 (Air date 11/11 at 19:00-20:00)
Intrigue, propaganda, and subterfuge are the two weapons of the Cold War. Red and Blue find both success and failure as they seek to turn various nations, creating crises that nearly bring the world itself to a boil.
Within Comintern, social liberalization and environmentalism begin to upend Marxist orthodoxy.
Episode 8: A Global Commune 1990-Present (Air date 11/11 at 20:00-21:00)
Mass communications and technology shrink the world. Some say technology will create a permanent detente as digital medias allow young people on both sides to see the world outside propaganda.
[1] I think the UASR uses metric time.
[2] American socialists ITTL would think of those people as capitalist cowards.
Reds: A Century of Communism-A PBS Mini-series
In November of 1917, the deprived and oppressed workers of Russia not only brought down a corrupt government, but would bring to life a political idea never put into practice: the worker's state. 100 years later, nearly half of the world's population govern under this system. Nearly half the world's people are united not in the defense of a king, or a flag, or the riches of a select few, but the concept of human liberation. Communism is a movement full of hardship, terror, and opportunity to the oppressed.
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Reds: A Century of Communism will explore the greatest events from the century of socialism, from the Bolshevik Revolution to the modern-day in eight, 60 minute episodes on Friday 11/11.
Episode 1: The Fires of Revolt 1900-1913 (Air date 11/11 at 13:00-14:00 [1])
Learn about the conditions of early 20th century Tsarist Russia and the old American Republic, early attempts of unionization and radicalization, and the tepid reforms by so-called "progressives". [2]
Episode 2: Shaking the World 1914-1921 (Air date 11/11 at 14:00-15:00
World War I would not be the end of all wars, but it would mark the beginning of the end of the capitalist order. In Russia, the deprivations of the First World War bring down the Tsars and plunge the vast nation into civil war between proles and reactionaries, while in America, the Bienno Rosso will serve as a merely the opening act to the struggle of the worker.
Episode 3: The Bubble Bursts 1922-1933 (Air date 11/11 at 15:00-16:00)
The Soviet nation slowly consolidates power. The economic collapse of the 1930s expands the popularity of the Worker's Party in America. But an attempt by elites to defend their wealth will bring about the second worker's revolution of the 20th century.
Episode 4: Reforms and Storms 1933-1939 (Air date 11/11 at 16:00-17:00)
Socialist ideas proliferate in the fledgling Union of American Socialist Republics and its Latin American allies, and uneasy ties are forged with Soviet Russia. But in Europe, Japan, and South America, reactionary forces arise seeking to stomp out the nation of workers in the name of wealth and plunder.
Episode 5: The Moment of Truth 1940-1946 (Air date 11/11 at 17:00-18:00)
The Second World War unites bourgeois democracy and worker's democracy against the fascist horde. The horrors of Nazi Germany, Japan, and Brazil bring both decimation to the world, and new meaning to the cause of worker's liberation.
Episode 6: A World Divided 1946-1951 (Air date 11/11 at 18:00-19:00)
Hopes for post-war consensus are dashed as wartime unity between Red and Blue shatters due to capitalist hunger for wealth. Nuclear weapons force each side to hide behind a wall of weapons and surveillance.
Episode 7: Flashpoint 1952-1989 (Air date 11/11 at 19:00-20:00)
Intrigue, propaganda, and subterfuge are the two weapons of the Cold War. Red and Blue find both success and failure as they seek to turn various nations, creating crises that nearly bring the world itself to a boil.
Within Comintern, social liberalization and environmentalism begin to upend Marxist orthodoxy.
Episode 8: A Global Commune 1990-Present (Air date 11/11 at 20:00-21:00)
Mass communications and technology shrink the world. Some say technology will create a permanent detente as digital medias allow young people on both sides to see the world outside propaganda.
[1] I think the UASR uses metric time.
[2] American socialists ITTL would think of those people as capitalist cowards.
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Bulldoggus
Banned
The lunatic right of the UASR-
The hard-right in the UASR can basically be divided into the "Blues," the "Whites," and the "Browns." I think you'll figure out how that works.
The Blues
The True Democratic Party- They are the only one of these most UASR residents who aren't politics nerds have heard of, as they tend to have a half-dozen seats in whatever congress is called. They feel the UASR is illegitimate, and wish to return to the constitution of the Second Republic. However, they also unequivocally condemn President MacArthur. Their economic outlook, such as it is, is vaguely Keynesian/New Dealish. But none of these parties have an Econ platform. They are popular with crusty old reactionaries and protest voters.
The Prohibition Party- They dislike the devil whisky. Generally seen as a harmless curio (although the feds will infiltrate any right party). Occasionally win local seats in Utah and Amish Country.
The True Whig Party- These guys are fans of the Articles of Confederation, seeing the Second Republic (and obviously the USAR). Advocate for a return to the First Republic. Also a total joke.
The Social Credit Party- Oh, you thought I would do this without giving SoCred its due? You thought wrong. LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR! They're mostly big in Canada.
The Whites
The True Loyalist Party- These guys feel the American Nation is illegitimate, and advocate for returning the east coast to the United Kingdom, the Midwest to France, the Southwest to Spain, etc. They exist. Even the FBU thinks them absurd.
Deus Vult- Here be TradCaths.
The Browns
The True Republican Party- They spun off from the TDP in the 1970's when the TDP condemned MacArthur. So you can imagine what sort of folks these guys are...
The Traditionalist Workers' Party- The political wing of dozens of loosely connected Strasserist, Fascist, Integralist, and Falangist militias that have been very unpleasant lately. They support the socialist economic consensus, but also a white ethnostate. Nasty fuckers.
The hard-right in the UASR can basically be divided into the "Blues," the "Whites," and the "Browns." I think you'll figure out how that works.
The Blues
The True Democratic Party- They are the only one of these most UASR residents who aren't politics nerds have heard of, as they tend to have a half-dozen seats in whatever congress is called. They feel the UASR is illegitimate, and wish to return to the constitution of the Second Republic. However, they also unequivocally condemn President MacArthur. Their economic outlook, such as it is, is vaguely Keynesian/New Dealish. But none of these parties have an Econ platform. They are popular with crusty old reactionaries and protest voters.
The Prohibition Party- They dislike the devil whisky. Generally seen as a harmless curio (although the feds will infiltrate any right party). Occasionally win local seats in Utah and Amish Country.
The True Whig Party- These guys are fans of the Articles of Confederation, seeing the Second Republic (and obviously the USAR). Advocate for a return to the First Republic. Also a total joke.
The Social Credit Party- Oh, you thought I would do this without giving SoCred its due? You thought wrong. LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR! They're mostly big in Canada.
The Whites
The True Loyalist Party- These guys feel the American Nation is illegitimate, and advocate for returning the east coast to the United Kingdom, the Midwest to France, the Southwest to Spain, etc. They exist. Even the FBU thinks them absurd.
Deus Vult- Here be TradCaths.
The Browns
The True Republican Party- They spun off from the TDP in the 1970's when the TDP condemned MacArthur. So you can imagine what sort of folks these guys are...
The Traditionalist Workers' Party- The political wing of dozens of loosely connected Strasserist, Fascist, Integralist, and Falangist militias that have been very unpleasant lately. They support the socialist economic consensus, but also a white ethnostate. Nasty fuckers.
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Redshank Galloglass
Banned
Are they still lead by Fuckbeard McFatAss?
Words cannot describe how many chicken wings are buried in that neck of his.
Bulldoggus
Banned
He's a talking head (on those unsavory purist-libertarian outlets that will allow TWP people), organizer, youth-wing leader, and all around rising star in the party. Don Black runs the party...Are they still lead by Fuckbeard McFatAss?
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Words cannot describe how many chicken wings are buried in that neck of his.
Also, I see the TWP as being the biggest of these parties besides the TDP (and the TWP is younger, whereas the TDP base is dying off at an alarming rate).
Redshank Galloglass
Banned
You might want to add something about how these parties would have a presence in annexed Canada. I think that's the only place in the UASR where there could be far-right mentalities that aren't Mencius Moldbug levels of obscurity.He's a talking head (on those unsavory purist-libertarian outlets that will allow TWP people), organizer, youth-wing leader, and all around rising star in the party. Don Black runs the party...
Also, I see the TWP as being the biggest of these parties besides the TDP (and the TWP is younger, whereas the TDP base is dying off at an alarming rate).
Bulldoggus
Banned
SoCred... eh?
And Mencius is a writer for the journal "Alternative Right," which is the publication where members of all these squalid parties pool their ideas. Most writers there go by extraordinarily pretentious pen names. Richard Spencer is "Imperator Supremus," Nick Land is "The God of Philistines," and Rod Dreher is "Pilgrim in an Unholy Land," to name a few of those known IOTL.
The mention of Strasserite strains of thought makes me wonder, given the 100th anniversary we've been discussing in the thread, what the state of 'National Bolshevism' is in Russia ITTL. I'd imagine that, if Aleksandr Dugin still wrote about about his 'Fourth Ideology' here, he'd be an obscure and marginalized figure at best or an utter non-entity at worst. Certainly not potentially having the ear of anyone in power that's for sure...
AH.com Chat: The 118th Brumaire of Politiyanks
Look who's back! Our main somewhat jerkish American communist. Because he's been missing for far too long.
Also no, I'm not insulting you Bulldoggus, my character is insulting your The traitorous bulldog character and if you are insulted I apologize.
Religious_Commie said:
Look who's back! Our main somewhat jerkish American communist. Because he's been missing for far too long.
Also no, I'm not insulting you Bulldoggus, my character is insulting your The traitorous bulldog character and if you are insulted I apologize.
Bulldoggus
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AH.com Chat: The 118th Brumaire of Politiyanks
*The Tories were just as strong as Labour in Scotland until they went full Thatcher. After all, Willie Whitelaw was an absolute titan for decades. I think when FBU people think of "disgruntled leftie Celts", they think of the Welsh.
*The Tories were just as strong as Labour in Scotland until they went full Thatcher. After all, Willie Whitelaw was an absolute titan for decades. I think when FBU people think of "disgruntled leftie Celts", they think of the Welsh.
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Redshank Galloglass
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The Welsh aren't normally thought of anything in the UK except higher pitched Englishmen, so I'd expect the UK to see them as the disgruntled miner communists of the nation.
Labour and the Conservatives may have been equally tied OTL, but I'd say it's not thst black and white TTL. I think it would depend on the city they live in. Since UK politics aren't necessarily the same as OTL I'd think that we'd also see a bit more of a PA dominance in the region following WWII.
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