So in normal gameplay the peasants are very politically inactive and are very reactionary by default, and to radicalize the people the game expects you to proletarize the people first by industrializing and not doing reforms. But on twitter I've seen people saying that the peasants are the ones who form communist party in their game, while in my games the trade unionists (urban proletariats) often ends up being socdems with the intelligentsia instead. What steps am I missing?
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I can confirm that you can get communist armed forces without being a socialist country. I got them a couple of times while playing as Sokoto. On each occassion, it was before I even reformed my government type (so was still a caliphate). No idea what the triggers are. I think perhaps you just need to have researched socialism in the tech-tree for it to be able to trigger?