Comrade Cassidy continues the socialist struggle. Now have the bolsheviks take over. I wanna see countries invaded and getting their governments replaced with puppet communist ones.
Nah... I'd get trounced if I had to fight all GPs at once(even Kwa is very tough due to their numerical superiority), and most of America is made of either Libertadores puppets(like everything in their SOI and the United States of Central America) or Kwanstain. Besides FREEDUMZ is the National Value of Libertadores and the damn bolsheviks are an insignificant minority, plus I won't LARP to let rebels win(I actually failed to arrive in time when the democratic socialists overthrew the government) so no way that will happen.
Plus the Libertadores current form socialism is much better industrial efficiency-wise and they have more than enough CBs till the endgame.
And at last but not least, this enitre Let's Play is a homage to The Brazilian Slaughter, thus it is only fair and more KKKodexian to let the German-Brazilians in Rio Grande do Sul
sieg heil anaue and crush the manboon untermensch without cheating to prevent them from winning elections if that happens. But once the fascists gain their own party so that their voters stop voting for the conservatives, just to advance the detail, from how the Libertadores are ideologically divided, all elections will be very, very disputed between socialists, conservatives and fascists with neither side having any major advantage over the other at first.
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Rise of Integralism, fall of Socialism
In spite of all the turmoil, progress is happening in the colonies.
The grassroots socialist movements expand over Brazil, in the hopes to counter the rising popularity of fascism.
Facing enourmous Jacobin forces, the forces sent to restore order in Madagascar suffer a setback, as the traitors march to meet the loyalists in a decisive battle.
The rise of the popularity of fascism and the massive militancy and continuation of the Brazilian Civil War finally led the radical Bolsheviks to break away and declare war against the Libertadores, accusing them of being "revisionists and puppets of the bourgeoisie pretending to seek revolution through a false petit-bourgeois socialism", rising by the hundreds of thousands. The White and Republican Armies were crushed, but now the Libertadores had their former allies as enemies too, having to crush the Bolshevik Red Army lest the cherished freedom is trampled by these madmen who think tyranny is the right path to socialism.
The Libertadores pledges to fight against the Bolsheviks, supported by all libertarian socialists. The final schism between the beliefs of early "Utopian" Socialists, Proudhon and Bakunin versus the beliefs of Karl Marx and of the Russian Vladimir Lenin is finally done, the two schools of socialism now waging open war on each other. Meanwhile, in an unexpected action, the British Empire offers an alliance of convenience. They accept, because this way Kwanzania will not dare to start a war against them while they are not prepared to face one.
Industrialization proceeds rapidly, with new techniques being developed to increase the efficiency of automobile and aircraft assembly lines.
Perhaps it was their schism from the Bolsheviks, perhaps a revival of the idea of realpolitik and "the enemy of my enemy", but somehow, many European countries don't consider the Libertadores a "Red Menace", and offer alliances. The alliance with the Frogs also is accepted, as another barrier to Kwanzanian imperialism. This serves only to rile up the Bolsheviks and Totalists, accusing more than ever the Libertadores of being sell-outs and traitors of "true socialism". Nevertheless all the measures taken in the decades of Colorado rule, from extensive land reforms to destroy the plantation system to the forced breakdown of megacorporations into small businesses and extensive incentive to workers self-management and cooperatives, plus a legal recognition to the right of all workers to take over the factories they work at against the wish of their masters.("Petit bourgeois socialism" as the Bolsheviks pejoratively call such measures), have more than proved their intention of eventually eradicating capitalism through a decentralized, libertarian and grassroots way rather than the authoritarian, central command way the Bolsheviks want.
In September 10th of 1902, finally the loyalists crush the enormous Jacobin forces in Madagascar, and at last the opportunity to restore order to the island is at hand.
Which will not be simple at all.
New philoshopical currents are emerging in this new century, as are emerging new concepts in sociology that will help the Libertadores to understand collective human behavior, and thus how to induce, not impose, the people towards the socialist way of life.
The anti-religious stance of the government is clear, and measures are taken to ensure complete separation between any Church and the State, although on the other hand, ensuring they never alienated the mostly Catholic population of the Libertadores, the Colorados do not actively pursue or enforce anti-religious concepts either, and grants total freedom of religion, save for tax exemptions.
While order is being restored, good news on Central America. The socialists won the elections, and thus the semi-independent United States of Central America are closer than ever to the rest of the Libertadores.
In West Africa, the Bolsheviks have crushed the colonial armies, and thus ships are readied to transport a new army there to restore order. The Brazilian Civil War has been indeed devastating, with every minority ideology trying to achieve through violence what they couldn't achieve through the ballots. LIBRULS, Reactionaries and at last Totalists defied the authority of the Libertadores legitimate and democratic government, and all have failed, Democracy emerging triumphant.
Despite all the chaos still ongoign even as the defeat of the Bolsheviks was only a matter of time, elections were not cancelled, and hopefully they would convince most to try voicing their opinions through voting rather than through the barrel of a rifle. However, as expected from elections happening in the middle of a Civil War, it would be a tense moment. And all while Integralism grew even more, with over a quarter of the voters supporting the movement at this point.
The elections turn out to be contentions...
With a growing anger against the government, bolstered by unemployment issues caused by a faster growth of the craftsmen than the time it takes to expand the factories in Rio Grande do Sul and by the fact the sheer majority of the population was staunchly anti-socialist.
And the violence of the Civil War was far from over. One of the greatest problems for the Colorados in these elections was the fact that the fascists decided to support the Republican Party this time, and together they were more than enough to have serious chances of winning.
Conservatives in the upper house remained a great barrier for social reforms, and thus sometimes improvisation and self-initiative was the only way to improve working conditions. With the immense tension however, it was hoped that they would realize how they should fucking support social reforms this time FFS!
The concept of the Revolt of the Masses is a very real and close reality for the Libertadores. As the fascists grow in popularity, it becomes clear in an ironic way that Democracy is the only government that allows its own undoing in a nonviolent manner... at first. However, there is still hope for democratic socialism to triumph even now that fascism became on of the three strongest ideologies in the Confederation.
Speaking of The Revolt of the Masses.... *sigh*
After the country nearly collapsed and lost Madagacar, finally those stubborn conservatives agreed to support a reform for improving the welfare checks of unemployment subsidies. A massive government-funded industrial expansion program in the meanwhile is undergoing with the goal of eradicating unemployment for once and all, and this is a serious issue in these elections.
Fortunately, in the national DISCUSS! between Bolsheviks, democratic socialists and fascists on the issue of unemployment, the Colorados did the best arguments, ensuring more support to the libertarian socialist cause among the unemployed.
With the recent unemployment subsidies expansion reform, finally, in 13th of May of 1903, the long shadow of the Brazilian Civil War has ended, with Bolsheviks, Jacobins and Reactionaries successfully crushed, and the fact the economy managed to grow even in spite of such turmoil is a testament to the success of the Libertadores. However, the end of the Civil War and their victory was little reason for the libertarian socialists to celebrate.
Breaking European News: Courageously, the Democracy of Prussia, old signatory of a mutual defense pact with the Libertadores and formely ruled by the socialists(now back to LIBRULS), has proclaimed their intent to unite all Germans under the ideals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity as the Republic of Germany, and upon this the ancien regimes of France and Austria-Hungary banded together in an ironic twist, with a monarchist France now fighting against a Republican Prussia born out of a revolution not unlike the one that once overthrew the monarchy in France. Among the Prussians, who still believed they could overcome such enormous odds, the conflict was called the Weltkrieg, and later historians would call it the First World War, with some tying it to the Libertadores-Amerikwan War and some not doing so. Brutal trench warfare happens, with massive casualties as the western front shows signs of bogging down, although Prussia is in a dire situation, facing enemies over a massive front and having Sweden as their only ally. Perhaps they did a big mistake here.
The hopes that there would be no more Civil War waned as a new wave of riots erupted during the elections. Out of its commitment to liberty, the Libertadores did not send the army to suppress the riots violently and with potential slaughter. Hopefully this would be just temporary.
The Weltkrieg began to turn out really badly for Prussia, as they were vastly outnumbered by the French and Austro-Hungarian forces, and their men died in the droves in Strasbourg, unable to break through the vast French trenches. Hopefully neither side would ask for the Libertadores to join this war, which was of no interest to their political goals and most importantly, as the enemies in this war were both allies of the Libertadores, it would force them to pick sides.
Askaris are formed in Madagascar, which will hopefully help ensuring no more chaos such as that of the Brazilian Civil War will happen again.
In July of 1903, the end of an era happened, despite the fact that ironically, some fascists voted for the Colorados, for most of the fascists, as advised by The Brazilian Slaughter, voted for the Republican Party, who approached the campaign evoking Bolivarian ideals to the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the Confederation, and Republican ideals to the Brazilians, while promising they will respect all worker rights established during the socialist rule and not forcefully dismantle the land reform and workers self-managed factories, retaining the Confederation in its "middle of the road" between capitalism and socialism.
However, it didn't take long after the Conservatives victory for the fascists to begin their disagreements. The fascists became disappointed when the promises of the Republicans of respecting the socialistic part of the Libertadores economy turned out true, as clearly they made concessions in the hopes of securing their position in the government in an union of nations completely polarized and divided by political ideologies, and sought more of a "center-right", or even "center-left" policy in economic fields, while retaining their strong conservatism in religious and cultural matters only.
The Brazilian Slaughter was outraged, and thus he wisely began to set up the events for forming at last an organized Integralist Party, which would be formed in 1905, and with the end of the "honeymoon" between fascists and conservatives, the next elections would be the most important elections in the entire history of South America.
And probably the most disputed in History as well, because socialists, fascist and conservatives were more or less evenly matched in population support. And despite having lost, the Colorados saw the end of the coalition as a good thing, for it meant that they stood a significant chance of winning the next time, with their ideological rivals divided, and securing socialism again.
The promises of the Conservatives didn't take long to ring out empty, as they agreed to lockout a worker's strike in one of the still capitalist-controlled factories. This of course would backfire against them in the next elections as it only strengthened socialism.
The conservatives promised they would not revert any social reforms, but they were very clear on their intent of not supporting any further reforms unless one was the last thing stopping another civil war from happening, and this causes a strong wave of opposition from both social liberals and socialists.
Now... eventually there will be a chance to achieve the same in the South Pole...
Provided they don't get eaten by a Prisoner of Ice first.
The conservative prime minister doesn't help at all the conservatives at gaining popularity in face of the vastly and roughly evenly divided population, and after the end of 1903, it seems that at last the tensions of the Civil War are definitively over, and peace reigns again in the Libertadores, although their champions lost the elections.
1904, one year before the Integralist Party formation, however, marked a bleak prospect for both conservatives and socialists, as for the first time in History, the fascists gained the support of the majority of the voters, despite the fact the differences of support between each of the three main ideologies are minimal. Despite having won the elections, the conservatives were less popular than the socialists, and thus socialism still had a chance to prevail through a fair and peaceful election.
Could this be the end of the socialist era, or even worse, the beginning of the end for democracy in the Libertadores? The socialists still have a significant chance of winning in the next elections, which definitively shall be the most disputed elections in the History of South America.
TO BE CONTINUED