I know it have a whole mechanic around material conditions and radicalism, like do you have to deliberately make things shitty for the working class? Can the middle class become fascist if their conditions deteriorates too?

  • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    2 years ago

    Be aware, trade unions and farmer factions that come to dominate communist/anarchist states tend to oppose multiculturalism, free migration, elected bureaucrats, and police

    You'll want to get them (police become kinda unnecessary anyway though) during the time that industrialists+Intelligentsia dominate after you push the church and other classical reactionaries aside, but before the workers activate.

    Intelligentsia also opposes elected bureaucrats.

    Multiculturalism + free migration are the important ones for a communist/anarchist country, since you can get an extra 25% immigration attraction from the journal and it's very easy to pass the best laws, so you'll get a not-insignificant chunk of the world's population moving in.

    • TyMan210 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I just want to second this point. I didn't really plan it out, so I ended up with a council republic before enacting women's suffrage. Now there's not enough political interest for me to change it, but I'm still getting the suffragette events. Hopefully that'll lead to something eventually, but if I had done it properly I could have made the change several years prior to where I am now.

      At least now I've learned that you can swap interest groups in and out of your government to tweak laws as you need to, as long as you can do it without effecting your legitimacy too much. But more importantly, I learned that you can't even try to institute a law unless there's at least one interest group in your government that supports it. I learned that the hard way, while I was in the process of switching to a council republic. I kicked the intelligentsia and the industrialists out of government, without realizing that they were the only two groups supporting the women's suffrage law. And then they both joined the revolution trying to stop the change, which meant that they had no clout left when the civil war was over, so I had no way to change the suffrage law any more. Which is how I ended up in the situation I described at the top lol

        • TyMan210 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          I think I'm pretty much done with that playthrough, and after another 5-6+ years I still didn't get anything. At that point I was pretty much exclusively getting leaders with communism/vanguardist for the biggest interest groups. The suffragette events just kept giving me the option to boost the industrialists, but I don't think their leader had the feminist ideology. And they had like 3% clout, so in either case it wouldn't have helped

        • TyMan210 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Oh yeah definitely. If you're willing to take the extra time, you can be strategic with it and rely on the free reform after each election, since that won't generate radicals