Working Class revolution in Europe 1865-1900

Your challenge if you choose to accept it is to have a left leaning revolution occur in any western European country-The UK, Germany, France, the low countries, Nordic countries etc...

It does not have be a Marxist revolution though Marxist ideology is totally allowed as an influence.

Countries not allowed-Russia, Spain, Portugal, and Italy.

How can we have a mass revolution in the Europe's late 19th century golden age and in an industrialized power to boot.

Edit: Any regime established must be successful by successful I mean last at least 20 years. So the Paris commune doesn't count.
 
Consider outside regimes encouraging revolutions for their own benefit or for political reasons. Palmerston, for example, played a large role in abetting the revolutions of 1848-. And there's France in The ARW, of course. If revolutionaries with an anti-war stance were taking power in a state with a large military, traditional competitors might be all too happy to let them be.

France is the easiest candidate for the initial revolution, by a hefty margin. Technically this happened in OTL. It's a poor candidate for the revolution to prosper, unfortunately. For obvious reasons, Europe would not be terribly friendly to a radical France.
 
For a surviving Paris Commune, i recommend @Reydan's excellent TL.

Other plausible candidates are Germany/Prussia, Belgium and Britain. In Britain, early socialists had been rather moderate. Radicalising would have to occur here. In Belgium and Prussia, I guess what was lacking was a leadership which was both as radical as OTL and yet reached out to those who considered themselves "middle classes" at the same time. Difficult. So my second guess is Britain.
 
Your challenge if you choose to accept it is to have a left leaning revolution occur in any western European country-The UK, Germany, France, the low countries, Nordic countries etc...

It does not have be a Marxist revolution though Marxist ideology is totally allowed as an influence.

Countries not allowed-Russia, Spain, Portugal, and Italy.

How can we have a mass revolution in the Europe's late 19th century golden age and in an industrialized power to boot.

Edit: Any regime established must be successful by successful I mean last at least 20 years. So the Paris commune doesn't count.
Do not forget the proletarian Thermidor and Bonapartism.
 
For a surviving Paris Commune, i recommend @Reydan's excellent TL.

Thank you kindly.

Do not forget the proletarian Thermidor and Bonapartism.

What do you mean by this? I'm not sure what "proletarian Thermidor" refers to?

I think probably the best candidate would be Belgium, which was heavily industrialised and featured quite a few labour and civil disputes in this period. Particularly the Walloon Jacquerie of 1886. The difficulty with Belgium, though, is how invested in it the European balance of power war. Its hard to see a Belgium that falls into revolution that isn't occupied or invaded by a more powerful neighbour, or coalition of neighbours, to restore said balance of power. Overthrowing the Belgian Government wouldn't be too hard, but establishing a successful regime would be much harder.

Britain is possible, but your time period is harder in that regard. Between 1817 and 1840s Britain was in serious risk of revolution or at least insurrection (something I've toyed with for a timeline), but post 1840s a mixture of political reform, social change, and economic improvements, neutered support for violent revolution generally. There was another flash point in the 1910s, and if you could somehow defeat the Liberal landslide of 1906 and the reforms from that, then you could see something happen in 1911.

I would actually look towards the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Because to get a state to survive in these terms, to cover the 20+ years challenge, you need it either to be a big beast (UK, Germany, or France given your restrictions), or to have its revolution whilst major powers are distracted. A series of revolutions in the Habsburg lands, say, with invasions by Romania, Serbia, and Italy as opportunistic land-grabs in the process, in the 1880s or 1890s, might allow a left-leaning Bohemia, say, to emerge without being trampled on immediately. If they can prove to Berlin that they aren't an immediate threat, a distracted Germany might let them live in order to fry bigger fish in the chaos that was formerly A-H lands.

Just some thoughts.
 
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