Potooweet posted:

The story that you'll hear is that the Kaiserreich team was tired of second U.S. civil wars always being about the Confederacy/South Rising Again, so they made the CSA yankee communists, and put Huey Long in command of the Union.

So yeah, it's a huge troll. But amusing.

Mister Bates posted:

Le Guin is an anarcho-communist (a tendency very closely related to syndicalism, with a lot of overlap), so I was worried it would be a utopian political fanfiction about how awesome and perfect the glorious syndicalist society makes everything, but she's never been one to pull punches, even when it comes to positions she supports, so it's actually a very balanced view that goes into some of the problems such a society could end up having.

It's an amazing novel, it really gets you thinking. It tries to ask what exactly makes a utopia a utopia, and what makes a dystopia a dystopia - for that matter, what makes a society 'authoritarian' or 'democratic'? Is the anarcho-syndicalist society more free than the capitalist one, because the syndicalists have no prisons or laws and everyone is free to do whatever work they please and live however and wherever they please while always being guaranteed housing and a minimum standard of living? Or is it less free than the capitalist one, because peer pressure, public shame, and collective passive-aggression result in a very rigid social order even though there isn't actually a central government around to enforce it? Does the social order still count as authoritarian if it's only there because the majority of the people want it to be, rather than because it's being forcibly imposed on them? Hell, what is a government? Does a federation of anarchist collectives count as a 'state' when it begins to develop a bureaucracy and a formalized system for the division of labor, even if it's all self-organized and leaderless? Is the anarchist society a paradise where people are free to live to their full potential, or a living hell where the institutions of syndicalist union democracy have led to a tyranny by majority that viciously attacks anyone who deviates too far from the norm? Or is it both? Neither?

Kavak posted:

Unaccounted for. This is what happens when not a single American works on your mod for years, if ever.

Rincewind posted:

Beheading monarchs is the most important thing you can do in Paradox LPs, if you ask me.

CommissarMega posted:

SpiritOf1936 is going to end up in a shootout on some collective farm in the boonies, isn't he?

Chief Savage Man posted:

Perhaps the intelligence apparatus of the revolutionary government took an interest in Catholicism and appointed their own bishops like China does in order to keep the Pope from putting his own people into influential positions in American cities.

Coffeehitler posted:

Look at the number of infantry divisions, first says 66 and the second says 37. The Battle of the Sinai was a slaughter, goddamn.

Drone posted:

God I love this LP.

Lustful Man Hugs posted:

Was thinking the same thing. What did you guys do?

Chief Savage Man posted:

Brexit.

Chief Savage Man posted:

JEF-NE began their assault through a mad cavalry rush across the George Washington Bridge.

Chief Savage Man posted:

And the Entente was the largest alliance the world had ever seen.

Unfortunately, it was doomed.

Chief Savage Man posted:

zanni posted:

part of me agrees with the callers, bc it really does seem like Dickey has an agenda here, but part of me cant dispute the fact that theres nothing Good about war.