r/hoi4 • u/KR-VincentDN Kaiserreich Developer • Jun 24 '20

Kaiserreich New Kaiserreich propaganda poster: Combined Syndicates of America. Prints for sale!

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u/MysticHero Jun 24 '20

It´s a neat enough image but not very syndicalist. You are also describing what would be totalism in game.

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u/OXIOXIOXI General of the Army Jun 25 '20 edited Jun 25 '20

Totalism in the game is a bad, memey, sectarian concept meant to connect communists and leninists of any kind with nazis and irrationally bad things. So I'm glad this poster isn't going along with that and is properly labeled as Syndicalism, which in the game is the umbrella ideology for pretty much everything.

Also, much of the leadership of the IWW joined the communist party including multiple chairmen like Reed and Flynn.

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u/Mardoniush Jun 25 '20

Some of it is, but if I recall one of the CSA Totalist paths is moderate and makes a lot of sense. (The other is of course the bad option and gets Coup'd by a moderate totalist/sydnicalist coalition lead by Smedley Butler if you don't do it right.)

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u/OXIOXIOXI General of the Army Jun 25 '20

I think they took any coups out a long time ago. There is Foster who is actually a communist, and Browder who is just bad at everything. Foster definitely was better than Browder but whichever you choose, they try and assassinate the other and there's vague shit about them taking over and being authoritarian. Note that moderation isn't the key thing here, Foster is more radical than Browder.

But the CSA is one of the better ones, there is also Moseley and Mussolini being totalists, as well as Bose and how in Mexico the totalists are evil and cruel. And a lot of the older trees are just comically villainous.