What would Las Vegas be like if America was Communist?

Every American should know that Las Vegas is a very capitalist and is basically is the exact opposite of was communism and socialism stands for. which is why I am asking here today what would Las Vegas be like if America was communist?
 
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Depends on when America becomes communist. It didn't really become a casino city until the 50's. So if America becomes Communist before that, it would be a pretty standard large town.
 
^^ Do you mean how would the city of Las Vegas have developed if American was Communist?

Or, are we to assume that Las Vegas does develop as a gambling, entertainment mecca, and how is this characteristic influenced by US Communism?

If it's the latter, I'm not overly familiar with the status of gambling in "classic era" Communist regimes. My guess would be that, if it were allowed, and Vegas was the place for it, it would be tightly sequestered from the rest of the nation, and basically just used to bring in foreign currency and maybe entertain the domestic elites.

But all that would probably work better with a coastal city, at least pre-consumer airlines. Gamblers would just sail in, blow their cash, get laid, watch a show(probably foreign entertainers not afraid of blacklists), and then sail out. I doubt the authorities would want large numbers of foreign gamblers traveling inland by car or rail to get to debaucheryville.
 
Gambling is illegal in the People's Republic of America except in the Special Administrative Regions of Las Vegas and Reno...
 
Americans 'in good standing' might be allowed to enter, with preference given to party members.

Though there will be heavy survellence, certain venues might be off limits to all but the highest ranking Americans...
 
If America was communist from the very beginning, Las Vegas would either be a tiny village, or it could be a stupid megalomaniac and doomed by design project that would kill Colorado (like it does OTL) kinda like the northern river reversal or the cotton plantation in Uzbekistan that killed Aral Sea
 
You all are thinking of communism as it developed in Russia and its allied regimes, which culturally was pretty Russian.

American communism would be quite American and have a very different style. Communist regimes can do all sorts of weird cultural stuff, as we know from twentieth century Chinese history. The American communist regime could well do the entire frankly strange post World War 2 American cultural package, just make it more mandatory.
 
You do realize Paradise/Las Vegas was really born and bred as a "company town" in which the bussinesses themselves, rather than the municipality, built and ran everything including the utilities and public services while essentially bribing the state for legal immunity, right? If America went Commie, I can't imagine that'd be allowed to stand as it was anthema to everything the economic left stood for.

Maybe its turned into a kind of "Musuem of Bougious Capitalism"; a monument to the excesses of the system that brought about it's collapse and the rise of the Proletariat.
 
Every American should know that Las Vegas is a very capitalist and is basically is the exact opposite of was communism and socialism stands for. which is why I am asking here today what would Las Vegas be like if America was communist?

Closed city for atomic weapons research & development.

- Conveniently located near People's Glorious Colorado River Hydroelectric Dam.
- Plenty of open desert for testing.
- Lots of low-rise Brutalist ferroconcrete buildings.
 
Every American should know that Las Vegas is a very capitalist and is basically is the exact opposite of was communism and socialism stands for. which is why I am asking here today what would Las Vegas be like if America was communist?

If America became communist before Las Vegas as we know it was built, Las Vegas would never have been built.
 
If there was a Communist revolution prior to the 50s, Las Vegas either wouldn't exist or would be a small town known only to some. If there was a revolution afterwards, it would probably be preserved as a 'Vacation Spot for Workers', although depending on the nature of this revolution it could either genuinely be such a thing, or be a vacation spot for the nomenklatura and other various elites.

Either way, I would envision the new regime maintaining economic hotspots that are doing legitimately well, a la Hong Kong or Cuba's resort economy. I could see Silicon Valley and Hollywood getting similar treatment.
 
You do realize Paradise/Las Vegas was really born and bred as a "company town" in which the bussinesses themselves, rather than the municipality, built and ran everything including the utilities and public services while essentially bribing the state for legal immunity, right? If America went Commie, I can't imagine that'd be allowed to stand as it was anthema to everything the economic left stood for.

Maybe its turned into a kind of "Musuem of Bougious Capitalism"; a monument to the excesses of the system that brought about it's collapse and the rise of the Proletariat.

Perhaps it then becomes an experiment in libertarian communism? Worker cooperatives running the Commune of Los Vega
 
I think the 'Vacation spot for workers' thing is the most likely. Depending on the nations stance towards gambling, it may become quite similiar to OTL Las Vegas, or it may just get a popular vacation spot without it. I can't see it, becoming for party members only. Socialist nations didn't have such thing historicly. Special hospitals and apartments, yes, but that was easy to justify. After all these people were of high national importance and had been transfered the responsibility to lead the nation (polliticians and high business men nowadays have much the same actually, privileged housing and medical care but on a MUCH MUCH larger scale than in socialist nations). A city is like Vegas is something completely different.
 
Perhaps it then becomes an experiment in libertarian communism? Worker cooperatives running the Commune of Los Vega

That depends alot on exactly just what type of Communism the US government is. I suppose state autonomy is still highly likely, given the American traditional of self-government and the inviability of governing the whole country from Washington, in which case I could certainly see Nevada having much looser laws to a syndicalist type system that would allow for such a thing...

Or maybe we're looking at a Looking Backward type society?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Backward#Synopsis
 
Orwell was right. Gambling was often used like booze as a passifer for the masses. perhapes a strength through joy type reward for stakonovite workers.
 
Regional city of maybe 10,000 people with a strong military presence. The town starts to grow when the Debs Dam is constructed nearby.
 
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