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Scenario: Marx is born 100 years prior to his actual year of birth; 1718 instead of 1818.

Assumption: All of his theories on the working class, communism, etc. are still published as is today.

This "what if" hypothesizes that the American Revolution occurs as it still did (very conservative/libertarian). However, the French Revolution, rather than being liberal/egalitarian, is instead influenced by the writings of Marx, who in the real world wouldn't be born for about another 30 years, more so than the classical European philosophers of the Renaissance. Out of this revolution emerges the Free Democratic People's Republic of France (FDPRF - after all, communist acronyms are quite lengthy :))

Would this have led to communism spreading throughout all of Europe? France was an industrial society (for the late 1700s), at least as advanced technology-wise as the UK, which for all intents and purposes led the world at that time, and would have had a strong central government post-revolution.

EDIT: I posit this as the perfect time for Marx's writings to have come out. By the time in the real world that his works became popular, most Western countries (which he viewed as the necessary countries to go communist first), had some semblance of workplace safety laws on the books. This scenario's time frame would have been much more interesting, as workers were still very much treated poorly.
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