communism

It is April, 2020. Covid 19 has been raging across the United States, with the economy in freefall due to the death of the Saudi Arabian monarch, and the subsequent civil war. With tensions rising in Russia following the unexpected resignation of Vladimir Putin, and China militarizing the...

2020 was, throughout the 90s and 00s, the favourite "near future" date to place things in, near enough that we might live to see it, far enough to have wiggle room to get inventive. And of course the actual lived experience of the 2020s as a decade has mostly been "man I'm tired of living in...

"That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain." ― Abraham Lincoln The United States of America, in the form of the creature of Henry Ford and countless others in his shadow and their successors since 1932, was losing the Great Confrontation, unable to stem the Red...

7:39 PM Winslow High School Taylor beat her bloody hands against the door of the locker. Her face was wet with tears and other, more disgusting things. Her voice was gone, shouted out an hour ago. She was trapped within the belly of the beast, a stinking hole full of waste and excrement. She...

What is this? A quest set in the world of The Widening Gyre, an alternate history timeline which explores a different Great War in which an America led by William Jennings Bryan stays neutral, causing the conflict to last a year longer. In the timeline, this ultimately leads to successful...

Letter to Munich November 5 1918 Hugo Zimmerman 05 Deichstraße Hamburg Salutations Felix I hope this letter finds you quickly. As I hope you heard, Hamburg has risen up against the Kaiser. There has been mass mutiny among the soldiers and the high seas fleet. The workers have joined them...

Inspired by this thread I saw from last year: How would a Socialist Systems Alliance interact with the Mass Effect Galaxy? If there was a copy of Earth where the planet was united under a communist government and developed warp travel during the TNG era and makes contact with the rest of the...

https://x.com/ZhugeEX/status/1833647819065893334 Immediately after the end of World War II, some time traveling socialist scalpers (do not ask how these words fit together into a coherent ideology) offer the leadership of the USSR a sweetheart deal: They are now capable of purchasing any Sony...

The year is 2000. The sun rises on a new millennium, one dominated by the Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics. The great champion of the Free World, the United States of America, is no more. From its carcass, new states have arisen, with creeds and mottos both old and new. You are the leader of...

The Widening Gyre: The Great War and the Remaking of Europe Excerpt from Friedrich Engels' letter to Friedrich Sorge, January 7, 1888 A world war of never before seen intensity, if the system of mutual outbidding in armament, carried to the extreme, finally bears its natural fruits. . . eight...

Let's say that you have found yourself as Nikita Khrushchev in 1953 . What reforms and other actions do you take to ensure the victory of Communism in the Cold War? Or even just the Eastern Bloc and USSR surviving into the 21st century that's good enough too.

I'm Struggler, this is sort of a mental project I've been cooking in my noggin for years now, but finally put down in. Originally started as a "What if Britain intervened in the US Civil War" but the point of divergence has gone back to 1859. Progress will be slow.

Ever since the proclamation of the German Empire in January 1871, the fragile balance of power of post-Napoleonic Europe had been permanently upended. Under chancellor Otto von Bismark, Germany pursued a policy of diplomatic triangulation between its neighbouring powers, playing their rivalries...

By the late 21st century, the Earth was dying. Runaway climate disaster had amped up global temperatures, causing runaway refugee crises across the developed world, while the less developed world simply flooded. This global catastrophe was helped along by the Resource Wars of the 2050s, where...

While I am still busy with writing up the return to form for the Dual Order as a quest, I thought about how A: TNO's reworks have changed a lot since I started writing that holy shit, B: The quest format kind of forces me to prioritise writing only stuff relevant to the Quest and limits the...

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." -Antonio Gramsci It is the 7th of January, 2019. You sit in your bedroom alone, half hunched over on the bed as you blearily scroll through your phone. It is 10 in the morning and you have just woken...

"Author's" Notes: Welcome to The Roc's Nest, my science-fiction narrative timeline. This is a self-contained work taking place five hundred years after my last timeline, Good Drones Obey, but this story is its own thing and you don't need to read that timeline to get this one. If you want to...

Prologue: The World (XXI) "In Paris, the city is alive once more. It is the 50th celebration - and 51st anniversary of the event - of Le Jour de la Révolution, or The Day of the Revolution. From now to the Bastille Day, the whole of France will celebrate revolution and a strong commitment to...

Introduction: The Future is Now In the 20th century, the peoples of Earth developed the means of self-destruction. Their invention seemed to harbor the certain end of the human species. As it turned out, however, the mass death of the 21st century would have a more complex and incidental cause...

It is the year 1975 and the Cold War continues with no end in sight as old powers lick their wounds and new ones rise to usurp them in the game of geopolitics. The Second West Russian War, rather than the climax and death kneel for Hitler's empire would end up a half-victory for the reborn...

"Author's" Notes: This is primarily a work of near-future science fiction, vague quasi-Marxist theorycrafting, comedy, queerness, and kink as written by an asexual (so expect very little if any sexual intercourse to be directly depicted). If you like gonzo stories, socialism, or just like the...

I've had this book idea in mind for some years and finally finished the manuscript and am hoping to publish later this year. I would welcome some comment and feedback on the premise and the narrative from people interested in alternate history. Premise: Britain loses the Falklands War and...

A/N: Hey ho, this is my first time writing anything on my own on here, and this entire thing started off as just a tangent that my brain decided I should run its full course with, so I welcome any and all criticism. May 16, 2013. Nafa, Socialist Republic of the Ryukus. “Welcome back comrades...

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences — "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery" - Iosif Stalin Nobody could really explain the hows or whys of these things called "worldmerges", to bring different realities together in such a way that one...

The world ended. A war between two titanic forces sparked by greed and human desire brought hellfire and ruin upon every speck of human achievement in the known world. New stars birthed across lands with unstoppable force and unending heat. Many great edifices burned down, leaving ruined...