Bayonets Won't Cut Coal: The Socialist Republic of Britain
- Thread starter Lord Brisbane
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E. Burke
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I concur as well! (Hopes peer pressure wins out)
Yea, I'm just getting into it and its really good
So I start on this:
and it's thoroughly researched, plausible stuff and the best bit is I can't see how the hell you get a socialist republic from this. I have no idea where this is going! Huzzah!
and it's thoroughly researched, plausible stuff and the best bit is I can't see how the hell you get a socialist republic from this. I have no idea where this is going! Huzzah!
I know! I've had the exact same thought when I first started this timeline. Isn't it great, though?
I can't wait until this timeline has some significant butterflies behind it's belt and Lord Brisbane can put in his sig something like that (just making this up now, so no spoilers
):'Socialist Britain? Fascist Australia? Invasion of Canada by the US? Only on: "Bayonets Won't Cut Coal: The Socialist Republic of Britain"'
I've poured my way through all of this and it's so convincingly done I half-think this IS the history of the 1920s
What of social democracy?
how is social democracy as a politico-economic movement developing in this timeline? I mean the SRB calls itself socialist but, under the economic direction it is taking it's becoming more like an OTL scandinavian country. Keynes' ideas resembles more the New Deal rather than a socialist economy (obviously as Keynes served as an advisor for president Roosevelt) albeit in a syndicalist kind of way.
I just find it ironic because right-wingers (especially american ones) accuse any sort of welfare to be socialism while ITTL social democracy will literally be socialism. it's a delicious irony.
how is social democracy as a politico-economic movement developing in this timeline? I mean the SRB calls itself socialist but, under the economic direction it is taking it's becoming more like an OTL scandinavian country. Keynes' ideas resembles more the New Deal rather than a socialist economy (obviously as Keynes served as an advisor for president Roosevelt) albeit in a syndicalist kind of way.
I just find it ironic because right-wingers (especially american ones) accuse any sort of welfare to be socialism while ITTL social democracy will literally be socialism. it's a delicious irony.
So I read through this at a steady pace these last months and I must say I am most impressed by the detail of this timeline. I hope for an update some time in the future.
Anyway, I'm kind of wondering about the situation of the British/Commonwealth colonies, especially in Africa. I'm thinking that the Commonwealth will have a real hard time to keep them functioning enough. The chaos of disturbed trade patterns will seriously damage the situation in the large port cities that were dependent on foreign trade. These cities also serve as a perfect place for ideological awakening and political organizing.
Unless the Commonwealth or the USA takes up the trade by exporting cheap manufactured goods for raw material I think one will see a break in the colonial demographic trends.
Anyway, I'm kind of wondering about the situation of the British/Commonwealth colonies, especially in Africa. I'm thinking that the Commonwealth will have a real hard time to keep them functioning enough. The chaos of disturbed trade patterns will seriously damage the situation in the large port cities that were dependent on foreign trade. These cities also serve as a perfect place for ideological awakening and political organizing.
Unless the Commonwealth or the USA takes up the trade by exporting cheap manufactured goods for raw material I think one will see a break in the colonial demographic trends.