A Century of War (1900s Alt Hist)
Jan 15, 2018 23:05:44 GMT
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Post by Laurent de Gouvion St. Cyr on Jan 15, 2018 23:05:44 GMT
Papa_Stalin....
@joshuameme is wrong.
A transition to socialist politics was IMO most possible in early 20th Century USA, with powerful labor unions and socialist parties like the IWW,AFL, and SLP. Remember, President McKinley was killed by an anarchist only a decade ago. Both William Jennings Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt had anti-laissez faire leanings. The Socialist Party of America and the SLP had quite a lot of votes in the 1912 election, almost 100,000 between both of them.
America was most likely of all nations to have a revolution (or reform beyond recognition) IMO, even May Day (International Labor Day) was based on the Haymarket Affair, an American strike.
The way I see it, Wilson could appoint someone from the AFL (which was close to the radical wing of the Democrats) as a cabinet secretary, and have him influence the government. Appoint socialists to important positions until a coup happens.
Or you could do an alternate history of the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike. It was crushed and some immigrant laborers were arrested there, and you could make the trial a backdrop for a revolution. Propaganda to side with the laborers, constant strikes, constant appeals up to SCOTUS. Regardless, a conviction happens and that may ignite revolution.
Though if you strike the latter route, it would not be vanguardism/M-L, but anarcho-syndicalism. The former would more likely get a USSR-esque state, though still unlikely given the zeitgeist.
Another thing, a small revolution is fine. Even if that fails, the brutality used when suppressing that could be the cause of another revolution.
@joshuameme is wrong.
A transition to socialist politics was IMO most possible in early 20th Century USA, with powerful labor unions and socialist parties like the IWW,AFL, and SLP. Remember, President McKinley was killed by an anarchist only a decade ago. Both William Jennings Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt had anti-laissez faire leanings. The Socialist Party of America and the SLP had quite a lot of votes in the 1912 election, almost 100,000 between both of them.
America was most likely of all nations to have a revolution (or reform beyond recognition) IMO, even May Day (International Labor Day) was based on the Haymarket Affair, an American strike.
The way I see it, Wilson could appoint someone from the AFL (which was close to the radical wing of the Democrats) as a cabinet secretary, and have him influence the government. Appoint socialists to important positions until a coup happens.
Or you could do an alternate history of the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike. It was crushed and some immigrant laborers were arrested there, and you could make the trial a backdrop for a revolution. Propaganda to side with the laborers, constant strikes, constant appeals up to SCOTUS. Regardless, a conviction happens and that may ignite revolution.
Though if you strike the latter route, it would not be vanguardism/M-L, but anarcho-syndicalism. The former would more likely get a USSR-esque state, though still unlikely given the zeitgeist.
Another thing, a small revolution is fine. Even if that fails, the brutality used when suppressing that could be the cause of another revolution.
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