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    WI: Columbus, Ohio survives a Nuclear Exchange

    The premise of this thread is that in 1983 Able Archer goes hot. However, due to luck and happenstance, all of the devices aimed at Columbus, Ohio's capital, are either shot down or fail to do any damage because of mechanical failure. How is this likely to impact the post-Exchange world...
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    WI: Yaun Shikai Dies Early

    Say that in May of 1913, Yaun Shikai falls down a flight of stairs, and dies. What are the likely effects on the future of China?
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    President Schuyler Colfax?

    The Assassination of Lincoln was also supposed to assasinate Vice-President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward. What if those other assassinations had succeed? How would Reconstruction have unfolded with a Republican at the helm?
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    WI: Video Game Industry without Nintendo

    Say that the weather was clear on Kyoto that day and Nintendo fell victim to Fat Man. Or maybe it sticks to just making cards. For whatever reason, Nintendo doesn't get into video games. How does the Video Game industry develop?
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    USA stays neutral in WWI

    Who wins, or is game called on account of socialist revolution?
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    What If: The North Secedes in the ACW.

    What if instead of the slavocrats seceding to protect slavery, the North had seceded because they refused to continue to be associated with slavers?
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    US Neutrality in WWI

    So lets say that the Palmer Raids don't happen for whatever reason, and that because the Anti-War movement remains large, organized, and active, the declaration of war doesn't pass congress. What results?
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    WI: No Nationalism

    Specifically, if Nationalism never becomes as all encompassing a movement as in OTL, how does history change?
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    Looking for info on the Medieval Free Cities.

    Any books or websites where I can find out about the rise and fall of the free cities?
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    WI: Arditi del Popolo beats the Fascists?

    What would be necessary for the Arditi del Popolo to beat the Fascists and prevent them from coming to power? Also, what would be the effects of such a victory?
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    WI: Post ACW the slave holders don't get to keep their land?

    What if the freed slaves got the land they had worked on all their lives instead of the former slave owners getting to keep it and the blacks getting to be sharecroppers?
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    WI: Self-Managed Free Enterprise in Yugoslavia

    So, as is well known, Yugoslavia had a large experiment in worker self-management that was largely successful. It is also well known that Yugoslavia needed to have market reform to fix it's economy. But having a market doesn't mean having bosses. It is conceivable that Yugoslavia could have...
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    Challenge/Plausibility Check: Pro-Competition and Pro-Market Socialism

    The core analysis of Socialism is that the root of most social problems in industrial society stems from the laborers not owning the land and capital upon which they depend to make a living. In this sense it is technically possible to be socialist and also be in favor of a competitive market...
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    WI: Lysander Spooner Breaks the Government Mail Monopoly

    In OTL, Lysander Spooner fought the US Government's legal monopoly on mail by establishing a private mail company. The 3 cent stamp is his legacy. Unfortunately, he was financially ruined by legal proceedings before he could get the case to the supreme court. What if he had managed to take it...
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    WI: Marx and Engels never become friends

    The first time Marx and Engels met they didn't much like each other. What if they had never reconciled?
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    WI: Hegel lives on?

    OTL Hegel caught the Cholera and died in 1831. What if he hadn't caught the Cholera and lived for a while longer? Would the Young Hegelians have started their thing with Hegel still alive? How would Hegel react to the likes of Fuerbach, Bauer, and Stirner (assuming they publish stuff along...
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    A Las Barricadas!

    Entry #1 The Central Idea of Anarchism, that which defines and unites the philosophy's numerous variants and branches, is simple, it is liberating and terrifying. No Rulers. No one "in charge", because to be in charge you must be on top, and if you are on top then others must, by definition...
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    WI: May 68 strikes in France last few days

    First modern Wildcat strike nearly brought down the De Gaulle Government. What if it had lasted another few days?
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    WI: First International Expells Marx instead of Bakunin

    The First International was dominated by a vicious debate between Marx, who advocated State Socialism, and Bakunin, who advocated a type of Anarchism. It should be noted that Bakunin predicted with startling accuracy the degeneration of Revolutionary Parties that stood for election into...
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    WI: No Copyleft

    Richard Stallman dies before he writes the first GNU General Public License, from falling down some stairs. As a result, Lawrence Lessig is unable to come up with the Creative Commons licenses. What are the likely results?
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