Certainly long before the Louisiana purchase, and other westward expansion. Russia is less of a prison of nations that the US is.

  • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    If the plan was to immediately build communism, the mercantilist monarchies would have never funded the expeditions to cross the sea

    • Pseudoplatanus22 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Let's suppose they abolished slavery and hit the communism button straight after the revolution. They already would have had a population of Immigrants, ex-slaves, and natives to work with.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        while we're at it what if the Romans had instead of building an empire had decided to build communism

        • Pseudoplatanus22 [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          What if the primordial lungfish that crawled out of some ancient sea was an-prim?

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The point of the revolution was to allow for westward expansion. There was 0 chance the revolution could have been cool. The only successful revolution in US history was carried out by slaves during the civil war.