The Cuban Revolution. The martyrdom of Che, that one Soviet submarine commander that chose to not hit the nuke button, Reagan and Thatcher surviving assassination attempts, Yuri Andropov dying too early, Gorbachev becoming the leader of the Soviet Union, the ultra-Left gang of 4 lost the rightists in the PRC and were subsequently purged, the Red Scare 2 happened and drove CPUSA underground, Korean War, Vietnam War, Afghanistan War, the Israel wars, the decolonization movements across Africa, Khrushchev and Zhukov usurping the central committee of the CPSU after the death of Stalin, etc.
There is no way the second red scare does not happen in some form with the CPUSA voluntarily declawing during WWII. The capitalist state was going to liquidate it no matter what and the only unique thing about McCarthy was the style of theater he employed.
Disagreed, the name change from CPUSA to CPA - which one can concider a form of liquidation in the sense that the Leninist party of a new type model was abandoned in favor of moving towards becoming a more mainstream party in a precurser to the eurocommunist parties of europe - stems from Browder's blunder in assuming FDR wouldn't suddenly croak in office during the time Henry Wallace got replaced with a rattlesnake southern Democrat who would lead the crusade to liquidate the American u.s-soviet coexistence wing of government alongside the Reds in the purge.
The old party during the Browderite dissolution, and I would argue even when during the greatest heights of the Red Scare 2 was a materially a stronger party than the current CPUSA which suffered a true liquidation in the early 2000s at the hands of the Webbite social fascists that wormed their way into power.
The Cuban Revolution. The martyrdom of Che, that one Soviet submarine commander that chose to not hit the nuke button, Reagan and Thatcher surviving assassination attempts, Yuri Andropov dying too early, Gorbachev becoming the leader of the Soviet Union, the ultra-Left gang of 4 lost the rightists in the PRC and were subsequently purged, the Red Scare 2 happened and drove CPUSA underground, Korean War, Vietnam War, Afghanistan War, the Israel wars, the decolonization movements across Africa, Khrushchev and Zhukov usurping the central committee of the CPSU after the death of Stalin, etc.
Without Vasily Arkhipov saying "no", we don't have any advanced human civilization to speak of.
Or any civilization really.
There is no way the second red scare does not happen in some form with the CPUSA voluntarily declawing during WWII. The capitalist state was going to liquidate it no matter what and the only unique thing about McCarthy was the style of theater he employed.
Disagreed, the name change from CPUSA to CPA - which one can concider a form of liquidation in the sense that the Leninist party of a new type model was abandoned in favor of moving towards becoming a more mainstream party in a precurser to the eurocommunist parties of europe - stems from Browder's blunder in assuming FDR wouldn't suddenly croak in office during the time Henry Wallace got replaced with a rattlesnake southern Democrat who would lead the crusade to liquidate the American u.s-soviet coexistence wing of government alongside the Reds in the purge.
The old party during the Browderite dissolution, and I would argue even when during the greatest heights of the Red Scare 2 was a materially a stronger party than the current CPUSA which suffered a true liquidation in the early 2000s at the hands of the Webbite social fascists that wormed their way into power.
What if Gus Hall is reanimated in a pet semetary kind of scenario? Reanimated and violent.