Hey /left/
I'm not really a political interested person, but I do like History, especially Alternate History.
Problem is, that most of them are right/monarchist/pro-USA or pro-CSA
Do you know same good AHfics that are more on the red side?
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Hunter Cook
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Aaron Torres
Play Kaiserreich you'll have tons of reading material
Wyatt Powell
Not particularly, but there is a website where you can read a shit-ton of AH fics called alternatehistory.com so you should be able to find a couple of them on there
Nathan Jenkins
Here's my take user, if Cybersyn had actually been completed and implemented Chile coud've been one of the most successful socialist countries to exist.
Benjamin Martin
There's a reason that the left has histmat and the righ has fiction.
Nathan Parker
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Landon Cruz
1 year into project cybersyn=blame
John Barnes
alt historians get the bullet too
John Russell
en.m.wikipedia.org
The difference from actual history starts with the participation of Harriet Tubman in Brown's uprising in 1859; her sound tactical and strategic advice helps Brown avoid mistakes which in real history led to his downfall. As a result, instead of the American Civil War, the U.S. faces a full-scale slave revolt throughout the South—-helped by a handful of white sympathizers; by various European revolutionaries such as Giuseppe Garibaldi who take ship across the Atlantic; and an invasion by Mexico, which seeks to regain the territory it lost in 1848.
After a great deal of bloody fighting and an increasing dissatisfaction in the North which is required to send troops to fight the rebellious slaves, the blacks succeed in emancipating themselves and create a republic in the Deep South, led by Tubman and Frederick Douglass. (Brown himself did not survive to see the victory of what he started.) Abraham Lincoln - a Whig politician who never got to be President - tries to start a war to bring back the secessionist black states into the Union, but he fails and is himself killed in that war. Blacks remember him as their archenemy.
Later, the black state (named "Nova Africa") becomes Socialist, touching off a whole string of revolutions and civil wars in Europe. The Paris Commune wins out in 1871 instead of being crushed by the French Third Republic, Ireland breaks away from British rule in the 1880s, and the Russian Revolution is just one of many similar revolutions in different countries. Finally Socialism also wins out in the rump U.S., following a revolutionary outbreak in Chicago. Socialism works out as predicted by the German philosopher Karl Marx, bringing happiness and prosperity to all of humanity. (Marx himself is mentioned in the book as an enthusiastic supporter of the rebellious slaves, though he does not personally come to America to help them.)
The book has two levels. The overt plot takes place in 1959, in a Utopian Socialist world far in advance of ours in all ways. To mark the centennial of Brown's raid, black astronauts lead a manned landing on Mars. However, the story of the protagonist, a young black woman grieving the death of her husband on an earlier Mars mission, is mainly the framework for excerpts from the vivid diaries of two people who lived through the stirring events of 1859 and its aftermath—her ancestor, who was then a young black slave, and a white Virginian doctor who sympathized with the rebellion. In this world, an alternate history book is published called John Brown's Body, which describes a world in which Brown failed and was executed, the slaves were emancipated by Lincoln rather than by themselves after a war between two white factions, and capitalism survived as a political and economic system. It is considered a dystopia, describing a horrible world in all ways inferior to the one which the people in the book know.
Aaron Clark
Yes!
Needs to be a movie.
(A few minor changes)
Isaiah Anderson
Test
Wyatt Bailey
This sounds like a worse version of the Turner Diaries.
Austin Long
Any alt history where John Brown succeeds is based
Caleb Thomas
As based as that reality sounds it seems to just be a leftist version of the turner diaries. Just wish fulfillment. I prefer Kaiserreich because that just shows a world where socialism evolved differently, but still hangs in the balance.
Luis Cox
Agreed that it's just wish fulfillment but saying it's "leftist Turner Diaries" still seems like a stretch to me. Or maybe just appropriate that our utopia is "everyone is liberated and humanity reaches their true potential" to the right wing's 'utopia' of "everyone I dont like is brutally exterminated."
I hope youre a rightie and not one of these retards that think struggles for national independence are somehow anti-leftist
Yeah while I agree with the other poster that it's ultimately less interesting for being so utopian this is some beautiful leftist utopia porn regardless. mfw we will never live in this reality (or even kaserreichs timeline tbh)
Luis Morgan
wow, thanks al lot for the tip!
Liam Powell
No problem happy to help. Check out Kaserreich too definitely.
Leo Turner
I call it the leftist turner diaries because it’s basically the political equivalent of some high school autist making a comic where Sonic and Goku come to help him beat up all the kids who called him a fag at lunch.
Luke Russell
Youre right but I like communists unconditionally winning and not a fan of sonic and goku so ill masturbate to the former
Andrew Jenkins
>Liberty! GASP
Hunter Sullivan
well theres different factions in the setting which is part of the appeal, there's genuine tension and different competing ideologies even within leftism, leftism is just much more successful in general in this timeline