What if the Communist Manifesto had gone differently?

Marx and Engels give industrial discontent a theory of history and a call to organise.

If it had gone differently: Industrial grievance never gets its scripture; 20th-century politics loses one of its two organising ideologies.

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Later turning points that leaned on the Communist Manifesto. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

1. 1848The Revolutions of 1848. Without it, The demands for constitutions and nations are never even rehearsed; the old monarchies feel no pressure to bend.
2. 1917The Russian Revolution. Without it, The Russian monarchy reforms or muddles through; the century-long contest between communism and capitalism never begins.