Democratic Communist Federation wrote:Proctopeo wrote:The Welsh Union has capitulated.
To what?
It's a Kaiserreich meme. If you side with Radical Socialists (Autonomists) in the Union of Britain, they turn the Union of Britain into Welsh Union, Scottish Union, and English Union when you decide to abolish the trade union congress and devolve power to townships.
Because wales is small, as soon as Cardiff is occupied, they surrender, but it's on the border of England, so often there's an immediate retaliation from their allies, and as soon as it's recaptured, the welsh union rebounds. Leading to a series of notifications that the welsh union has capitulated spamming everyone when there's a battle over wales.
It's one major reason people who play UOB tend to side with Mosley and his Maximists (Totalitarians obsessed with a centralized socialist state, to the extent there's an event to "Centralize Art" that leads to bringing all the art in the nation to one place.) or the Congregationists (Syndicalists, who run the country through the trade union congress, and have pacifist and interventionist subfactions.)
Radical socialism tends to represent non-totalitarian socialism in the game, often anarchists. (In france, it's Anarchistes.). Maximism/Totalism/National Syndicalists for the totalitarian socialists and syndicalists. The rest are Syndicalists. Most socialist nations in the early stages have events where the three factions struggle for power. Seeing Union of britain turn radical socialist gets groans, because WELSH UNION HAS CAPITULATED.
In the Kaiserreich community, radical socialists (Any type of socialist that isn't a syndicalist or a totalitarian) are the butt of a lot of jokes, but then, everyone is.
As an example.
Kaiserreich itself is an alternative timeline where Germany doesn't pursue unrestricted naval warfare in WW1, and the US stays out of the war.
Eventually Germans occupy Paris, but the war continues to 1921, eventually resulting in the "peace with honor" and a reverse outcome to the historical one.
The Soviets are put down by an emboldened Germany and the Kerensky republic endures. Thus, soviet communism is viewed as a fringe and discredited ideology.
The economic sanctions and anger at loss of even more land in france leads to a revolution, which, because it occurs in an industrialized and western nation rather than Russia, takes on different characteristics, and is a Syndicalist revolution of the unions seizing power. This then becomes the hegemonic ideology of the radical left wing, instead of Leninism.
There's a miners strike in the UK, and the government, panicking over revolutionary tendencies, cracks down, which backfires.
Things go on from there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7VAxt7Dhs8
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 7:39 am
