W.I. America has cOmmisars?

First you need a Communist revolution, most likely in the 1920's for this to occur.

Most likely I could see the Communist revolution in America taking on a democratic tone more akin to the Paris Commune, but I can't tell for sure without a crystal ball.

If the Revolution even manages to by a long shot beat back the forces of reaction and form a Dictatorship of the Proletariat, then who knows what could happen to the nation under the guidance of(I'm assuming) the Communist Party of the United States of America(CPUSA-formed in 1919) OR some sort of American Soviets system of government(both?)

Most likely, due to the example given by the Soviet Union, the CPUSA would usurp power, seeing itself as the rightful vanguard of the revolution. I could imagine limited democracy existing then, just so they did not piss off the freedom loving American population.

communization of farmland? a NKVD/KGB-like secret police? A Stalin like leader?

who knows for sure. But that is why alternate history is so fun! :D
 
I was doing some thinking and I though that every percent of seats per Congress and House of Representatices combined you can appoint 50 commisars to the military to any regiment of your chosing (excluding rangers and other special operatives).
 
Um, after a Communist revolution their won't be a congress or a senate.


"...A People's Commissar (informally abbreviated narkom) was a government official serving in a Council of the People's Commissars.


Basically Lenin considered a Congress/Parliament/Senate as "Bourgeois." Before becoming the future dictator of the U.S.S.R in the 1920's, he claimed to support the Soviets(Councils), which were an experiment in direct true Socialist democracy.


Kind of like what is going on in Greece, only Greece's People's Assemblies are a mixture of Socialist ideas and non-Socialist ideas. think of the Soviets that way. mass assemblies called in cities to oppose the ruling government, only the Soviets of Imperial Russia were much more radical.


Later on however, due to civil war or Lenin's own personal decrees, the Soviets were all but destroyed by the time the U.S.S.R was created, save for a few rather resilient and somewhat moderately powerful stragglers that Lenin claimed had *all* the power. Stalin would dissolve the remaining Soviets(as they were the only thing standing in his way of becoming a full scale tyrant) and would turn the USSR into a dictatorial parliamentary system of government(which not even Lenin had the balls to do)



If the U.S.A becomes a Socialist state without democracy, then expect these People's Commissars to hold sway over the government in a parliament styled system of government(although they existed in the time of the Russian soviets, their role changed later on following the Soviet's destruction). They were kind of like the representatives, with a People's Commissariat as the highest form of government in the USSR(post-soviet era).

also from Wikipedia: "...Based on the Bolshevik's view of the state, the word soviet extended its meaning to any supreme body that obtained the authority of a group of soviets. In this sense, soviets turned into a hierarchical structure - Communist government bodies at local level andrepublic level were called "soviets", and at the top of the hierarchy, the Congress of the Soviets was the nominal core of the Union government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), officially formed in December 1922. However, the Communist Party officially played the "leading role" in society by that time; the soviets were in practice subordinate to it."


hoped that helped.
 
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You dont need to be communist have political officers, National Socialist guidance officers (NSFO) for example in the Wehrmacht
 
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