WI: Marx Shot

You're right, I must have been confusing Marx with someone else, though now I can't remember who it was that called the Minoans the original communists.

That sounds a like a very strange assertion. It somewhat works with the widespread notion of the Minoans as a peaceful, joyful, somewhat egalitarian and matriarchal society that variously pervaded earlier accounts of Cretan excavations, a view that can be partly blamed on Evans himself, and that is, of course, not likely to be any accurate.
I kind of recall that Christa Wolf (herself a very committed Communist) praised the Minoans to that effect in one of her novel (I think it is Cassandra) but mainly as matriarchal, not as Communist. I suppose she was influenced by Bachofen's ideas about primitive matriarchy (which match somewhhat with Marx-Engelsian ideas about primitive Communism indeed, if one does keeps on the general).
However I am digressing.
 
Anarchism as a more mainstream 20th Century political ideology? The charisma Marxist leaders and theoreticians brought to the table led to a decline in the popularity of Bakunin's and Kropotkin's theories.

This makes sense too.
Also Social-Revolutionaries might be a mightier in TTL's Russia (assuming that the general pattern produces a close WWI analog, I think it's reasonable to think that a Russian Revolution analog is not unlikely).
 
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