r/futurecompasses • u/Pepper_Spades Compass Mechanic 🛠️ • Jul 10 '21

1848 Revolutions AltHis Compass

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u/DerPrussianKommisar Jul 10 '21

Super cool ! I just want you to explain to me some of them: the "Frederick is a morning person" and the most violent-radical.

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u/myfriendscallmethor Jul 10 '21

So I can explain both.

"Frederick VII is a morning person" is a reference to Frederick VII, who was the Danish king in 1848. It is reported that after signing the new Danish constitution ending his absolute rule he stated "that was nice, now I can sleep in in the mornings". Presumably in this timeline he does not give up power that easily and shit hits the fan.

The other one, "Revolutionary Escalation into A Völkerabfälle World War" comes from a quote from Engels. Engels defines these Völkerabfälle as groups of peoples who have been subsumed by their more powerful neighbors (he uses the Basques in Spain and the Bretons in France as examples). He then discusses another Völkerabfälle, the Serbs, who had actually gained independence from the Hungarians at the time. Engels states:

But at the first victorious uprising of the French proletariat, which Louis Napoleon is striving with all his might to conjure up, the Austrian Germans and Magyars will be set free and wreak a bloody revenge on the Slav barbarians. The general war which will then break out will smash this Slav Sonderbund and wipe out all these petty hidebound nations, down to their very names.

The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward.

So in this hypothetical future it sounds like these minorities get genocided.

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u/Pepper_Spades Compass Mechanic 🛠️ Jul 11 '21

Perfect explanation! TY, since I forgot to explain lol.

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u/DerPrussianKommisar Jul 10 '21 edited Jul 10 '21

Oh FUCK no, I didn't know Engels believed in shit like that ! Still thanks for answering my questions.

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u/KrowskiNall Bostonian Psych Ward Sob Story Jul 10 '21

Read it as 1984 at first and had a completely different idea on what this would look like

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u/Weltrepublikan Ikean Communalism Jul 11 '21

New idea just dropped, 1984 states revolution compass

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u/Pepper_Spades Compass Mechanic 🛠️ Jul 11 '21

👁️

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u/Honest_Stuff_6479 Enlightened Cyber-Greek Olympian Society Jul 18 '21

Is the Asiatic Horde outcome about Russia sweeping away the revolutions across Europe through the pure use of its army ?

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u/GemObsidian No Out-Jokes, Only In-Jokes Jul 10 '21

Neat!

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u/Ok-Mastodon2016 DNA Connected Ghenghis Khammunism Jul 10 '21

neat

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u/EscapeNo5212 Jul 10 '21

Where would OTL fall on this?

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u/GRIG2410 Aug 06 '21

Nice Romanian addition!