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  1. Anthropological Dictatorships

    I've thought about this question before, from a different angle. Early anthropology was shaped by several key British researchers in the interwar era, such as Evans-Pritchard and Radcliffe-Browne; not long after that, the Mass Observation programme ran in the UK to observe the minutiae of social...

  2. “Ruler of Humanity” as a formal title

    Trotsky himself might not want that title, but a centralising successor may well do.

  3. AHC: Maximum number of sovereign countries by 2020

    Perhaps fragmenting France on the same lines as the HRE could create a historic precedent for smaller states within Europe? That alone, if it persisted to the present day, would create hundreds more 'sovereign' 'state' entities. It might then lead to less colonialism and less formation of...

  4. AHC: Maximum number of sovereign countries by 2020

    As it stands, the world has somewhere around 200 sovereign states today. Can you push that number to 300, 500 - even 1,000? Bonus points for the latest possible POD.

  5. AHC: Majority-coop economy in a Western country

    With a POD of 1900, can you create a situation where the majority of a country's firms are cooperatively owned? These can be consumer coops and/or worker coops. The remainder of firms can be privately-owned or state-owned in whatever ratio you see fit. While I'm curious to see what it would...

  6. WI Germany makes peace with France in 1941?

    Wouldn't a major risk be that Britain could simply declare war on and invade a neutral France to strike at Germany if it wishes? If it doesn't have a standing army it makes it easy prey to Britain if it wishes - and if French revanchism against Germany is high enough then complementing an...

  7. PC: Chinese civil war extended into the 1950s

    Fascinating idea - I hope someone can figure out a plausible scenario for this! (I don't know enough about the era to comment but I'd love to hear more.)

  8. WI: US goes to war just before the Great Depression

    Wow, what a fascinating idea. Does this delay a Depression-level event or could the inevitable next contraction in the economic cycle be less destructive? If so that will have immense consequences for politics and maybe completely alter the face of WW2 if it happens at all - not to mention...

  9. AHC: Have Germany Unify, but Then Force Germany and France to Work Together

    You could probably invert the issue by, rather than having a war draw them together by necessity, make a war a necessity of them having drawn closer politically. The obvious reason for that would be a successful communist revolution in both leading to Britain fearing a united red Europe (as per...

  10. AHC: Have the most medieval communes possible

    Almost every recognisable shred of European and world history would have been avoided if that were the case!

  11. TBWI: Hitler Never Becomes Leader of Germany

    OOC: It's a triple-blind what if.

  12. AHC: Left-Wing Socially Conservative Party UK

    Tony Blair emails a draft copy of A Journey over to David Miliband including the passage where he talks about the 2001 election, where he takes Bill Clinton's advice to treat an easy-win election as if every vote mattered. With this in mind, DM takes a more cautious approach to launching the...

  13. PC check: the "USSR conquers Europe in WW2" assumption

    There's an assumption on these boards that a scenario such as a failed D-Day, no American intervention in the European War, or white peace between Britain and Germany, would lead to the Red Army marching all the way into France. I wanted to test how plausible that assumption really is. For...

  14. How would you execute Overlord if you were placed in charge?

    Ahh, the Adama Manoeuvre

  15. PC check: Anglo-German Union

    That was a delightfully thorough excoriation. Although it was all well-reasoned I found the part about the Imperial Federation a particularly convincing final nail in the coffin. Thank you for finally putting this idea to rest! Hopefully I can now move onto ruminating about more plausible...

  16. PC check: Anglo-German Union

    I'm not disagreeing with the rest of your point - after all this is a plausibility check. But can you just explain why they'd have to give up their claims? You're also right to discuss the opposition of nationalists. Some potential counters: the timeline's original author assumes a chain of...

  17. PC check: Anglo-German Union

    An alternate history idea that has fascinated me for years is the idea of a personal union between Britain and Germany, leading to a formal political union. I encountered this scenario from my time back on the Alternate History Wikia, where the following scenario was proposed: I was curious -...

  18. AHC Democratic Divine Right

    My understanding is that this is how the papacy operates: the cardinals are guided by the holy spirit into voting for the 'right' option. So you'd need some kind of Christian polity that needs to determine a leader and imbue them with legitimacy, but is doing so prior to the rise of humanistic...

  19. WI: Entente win a devastating victory in WWI, Treaty of Sevres enforced

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_S%C3%A8vres

  20. AHC/WI: Several European countries convert to Islam peacefully like Indonesia

    I've toyed with the idea of how to get an Islamic Britain before. Can you explain why you think a more violent Danelaw would mean Paganism hangs on in the British Isles?
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