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Okay, so I know it's wanky, but there's a reasonable chance of the various western powers going Communist (especially Germany and Italy). So let's suppose that revolutionary socialists of one stripe or another (whatever's most appropriate) take power throughout the Western world. France, Italy, Germany, Britain, Russia and a smattering of other, less important countries all go Red (maybe not Britain, if it's too implausible) more-or-less independently of each other at around the same time.

What are the consequences? Would this scenario make socialism more palatable in other countries, like Japan and the United States, or would it be viewed as extremely dangerous? How would a decent number of completely independent and industrialized socialist states interact? What would be the economic consequences? Outside the communist bloc, would they be more or less internationalist than the USSR historically was? etc.
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