Imperial federalism,
and imperial socialism. AE likes...
I'm glad its keeping you entertained! There might be a teeny bit of wish-fulfillment here
Imperial Socialism is certainly interesting.
Glad you think so!
Surviving British empire is good. So I see you're setting Russia up as the villain here? What with ImpSoc and liberalism (your ideology of choice) becoming popular in Britain, Germany and France.
What of Austria-Hungary?
Good timeline, hope it doesn't die again.
Hmm interesting analysis, I get where you're coming from but remember; its only 1894, I have plans up to the 2000s so there'll be plenty of twists and turns. I wouldn't call Russia the villains or anyone the "villains" really, but I know what you mean.
As for Anglo-German-French ImpSoc, remember that Napoleon is in exile (as OTL) and France is quite devotedly republican and right wing at the minute. As for Germany, Good King Fred is on the side of liberalism but Wilhelm II is still heir to the throne and the country is open to move in many directions. Hell even Imperial Socialism itself has some dark connotations emerge, which I hope to have a look at particularly as we come into the 1900s. I don't want this TL to be a "Socialist/Liberal Wank" so I hope it'll stay believable and relatively sympathetic all round.
Austria-Hungary should be in the next update, alongside Russia and aha, fingers crosssed I can stay committed this time! It's gone well so far
But I hope you continue to enjoy
What's going to happen to China? Will the Qing reform? Will they still fall and have an Imperial Socialist Party rise to power?
All in good time! China is mostly as OTL for now but after the next sort of section (covering a medium/big war between 1894 and 1895) they'll be getting a lot of attention. Lots of divergence, lots of directions
Imperial Socialism or something like really is one of those fascinatingly British ideas that could very well have come up if not for the experience of Russia's revolution. It could be apocryphal, but I read somewhere that Marx said that the best people to enact socialism would be the British and the worst would be the Russians. A bang up job here, and I'm thoroughly looking forward to more.
I do like it as a quirk of British unique thought, its very interesting to think how socialism could have developed on the world stage without Bolshevism tarnishing it somewhat. In the old version someone commented that it was very "Orwellian" in a positive sense, indeed a lot of the origins of the thought process behind it came from Orwell's essay
Lion and the Unicorn, which is the closest we get to ImpSoc in OTL.
Anyway I'm glad you're enjoying it and I hope I'll keep it interesting!
Authors note: Update might get out today but might be delayed till tommorow, dealing with Russia, Austria and maybe Itly before we move on to the big drama of the 1890s, the
Short War