So occasionally we get WIs about Britain falling to Bolsheviks after WW1, or some other radical-left revolution happening during the convulsions of the 20s and 30s. Generally, the discussion finds that any real revolution doesn't make much sense in the British context.
Lately I've been wondering if that is because previous discussions have focused on foreign ideologies, and not looked at what a revolutionary movement suited to the British character and dilemmas would look like.
For example, Bolshevism really requires a large landless peasantry to be viable and a revolution led by factory workers would need factory workers who weren't aware of how dependent British manufacturing was on foreign exports. Any revolutionary movement would need to draw support from the massive British middle class.
So what do people think a revolutionary ideology that could succeed in Britain before 1950 would look like?
My own thoughts:
*Needs the support of the middle class, so probably would have more in common with Fascism than Bolshevism.
*Probably needs Cromwellian iconography and to explicitly reject internationalism in favour of some variety of nationalist leftism.
*Needs to be at least pro-Empire, if not pro-Free Trade.
*Needs to celebrate at least some part of business - either large or small.
*May need to embrace individualism? Not sure on this one.
And can anyone think of an ideology that would be successful in Britain and in the Dominions and/or the colonies?
Of course, even the right ideology would need the right conditions to succeed. Like the middle class being seriously short of food, which I am not aware of coming close to happening in OTL.
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