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Post by Mooncat on Dec 28, 2015 17:45:00 GMT
Has anyone managed to create an alternate, feasible political ideology which seems to work on paper? Not something super specialized but a broad ideology like socialism or liberalism?
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Post by Rhand on Dec 29, 2015 17:25:25 GMT
In one of my timelines, Marxism was replaced by a proto-fascist ideology involving exaltation of religion, authoritarianism, collectivist economics, and autarky, among other things.
In real life, I think the future will see a new radical ideology replace Marxism as the dominant mode of thought on the far-left. One that abandons Marxism and its focus on authoritarianism, scientism, progress, technology, etc. I think it will focus more on the environment as well.
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Post by orvillethird on Dec 31, 2015 3:07:40 GMT
In one of my timelines, Marxism was replaced by a proto-fascist ideology involving exaltation of religion, authoritarianism, collectivist economics, and autarky, among other things. In real life, I think the future will see a new radical ideology replace Marxism as the dominant mode of thought on the far-left. One that abandons Marxism and its focus on authoritarianism, scientism, progress, technology, etc. I think it will focus more on the environment as well. Perhaps like the views of Murray Bookchin?
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Post by Jasen777 on Dec 31, 2015 3:52:07 GMT
Well I did a timeline wherein Martin Luther followed through on becoming a lawyer (and never became historically significant), leading as you might expect, the different religious developments.
2 political philosophies eventually emerged, and I don't consider them jokes, though their names are:
Commonism - Developed in the former HRE after successful early modern peasant / religious revolts. Most property is held in common by all and goods distributed to those based on need. An attempt to emulate the early church as described in the 2nd chapter of Acts, with a strong role for religious leaders. Not working hard is seen as cheating not only the community, but God himself, and is disciplined, harshly if needed.
As you can imagine that scared the bejibbers out of the elite in surrounding areas, and they blamed the over complicated and fossilized nobility system of the HRE for allowing it to happen, and in many countries a strong alliance between the crown and the merchant class emerged, producing the political philosophy of -
Monarcho-Capitialism - a strongly capitalistic philosophy that equates capitalism to freedom and maintains that a strong monarchy is the best way to safeguard capitalism and check interference with it from both the nobility, religious leaders, and the common people.
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