Chapter 6: Yo Dawg, I Herd U Liek Class Analysis And Revolution, So I Class Analyzed Revolution So You Can Tank While You Tank: Part II

In every single revolution, there is a functional liberal-fascist alliance and a functional socialist-conservative alliance, and they are both competing for the fluid allegiances of the nazbols and social democrats, as well as seeking ways to splinter parts of the enemy coalition against itself.

In the revolutions that change political forms, the liberal-fascist alliance prevails against the socialist-conservative alliance. Even if they're fighting to preserve the status quo and they manage to beat back the revolution, the liberals will feel compelled to change political forms somewhat to stabilize the system against future revolution; think of the failed Rebellions of 1837 in Canada. Social democrats (Hunter's Lodges) and socialists (Equal Rights Party, Working Men's Party) and conservatives (Quebecois habitants, Parti Patriote) tried to overthrow the liberals (Chateau Clique, Family Compact) and the fascists (Francis Bond Head, Juvenile Advocates' Society) and nazbols (United Empire Loyalists). The revolutions failed, and political change resulted: the two provinces of Canada were united into one to pit the Anglophones against the Francophones, and that new province was given a greater degree of home rule. The more radical demands of the labor unions that had backed the revolutions never came to fruition, however.

The successful American Revolution also changed the political forms of society. Liberals (Thomas Jefferson) and fascists (Patrick Henry) got nazbols (the backwoods pioneers, some Native nations) and social democrats (Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin) together to defeat the conservatives (Tories) and their proto-socialist allies (other Native nations and the King's Ethiopian Regiment). It changed the political forms of the 13 colonies into the United States of America, but it ended neither slavery nor capitalism.

The American Civil War joined conservatives (Christian believers, Republicans) with social democrats (abolitionists, Native tribes who saw the importance of ending slavery) and socialists (Karl fucking Marx, sympathetic British labor unions who downed tools before milling Southern cotton and kept the UK out of the war) and nazbols (backwoods pioneers like Lincoln, everyone who benefitted from the Homestead Act, and some Native nations long allied to the US against their neighbors) to form the backbone of the Union cause. The Confederacy was supported by liberals (Democrats, Lee, Davis, most plantation owners) and fascists (Nathan Bedford Forrest, most slave patrolmen, the future Klan), as well as a couple nazbols (Native nations who took the rise of fascism as an opportunity to get revenge on the USA, as if the CSA wasn't the worst elements of America that had driven those grievances). If the liberal-fascist Confederacy had won, the political form of the US would have changed by being split asunder, but economic forms would have been unchanged. But the socialist-conservative Union won, and the political forms remained unchanged while slavery was abolished and the first federal welfare programs were created to set the freed slaves on their feet as free people.

Both World Wars are more complicated than I can get into here, and must be analyzed on each participant nation's level to get the fullest picture. But they can be abbreviated somewhat by noting which ideology controlled which nation, and the result.

In World War I, liberal Britain, France, Belgium and America joined with proto-fascist Russia and nazbol Serbia, Italy, and Japan to become the core Allied Powers. Together, they fought the conservative German, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman empires who made up the Central Powers, as well as the revolutionary defeatist Bolsheviks the kaiser reluctantly helped who were still catching Allied bullets after Versailles. The liberal-fascist Allied victory left capitalism ruthlessly intact, but ended the era of monarchical rule in Europe forever as the Central Powers' monarchs and the Russian tsar all fell.

In World War II, liberals played a minor role in helping the fascist Axis, while the conservative-socialist Allies united the world against the Axis. Liberals like Neville Chamberlain, and the French and German bougies, mostly helped by letting the fascists take over several countries unopposed. Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and militaristic Japan were the fascist core of the Axis, but often forgotten is the various Eastern European fascist regimes that helped Hitler: Romania, Hungary, and Croatia all helped Hitler against Stalin. So did thousands of collaborationist conscripts from occupied France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway. (Ironically enough, their punishment after the war for helping the Nazis was often to go behave like Nazis in their homelands' colonial possessions.)

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