What if the Revolutions of 1848 had gone differently?

A wave of liberal and national uprisings sweeps the continent, then mostly collapses.

If it had gone differently: The demands for constitutions and nations are never even rehearsed; the old monarchies feel no pressure to bend.

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Later turning points that leaned on the Revolutions of 1848. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

1. 1848The Communist Manifesto. Without it, Industrial grievance never gets its scripture; 20th-century politics loses one of its two organising ideologies.
2. 1870Compulsory mass schooling. Without it, Literacy and numeracy stay patchy; the workforce and the electorate of 1900 look much like 1800's.
3. 1871German unification. Without it, Central Europe stays a cluster of middle powers; the balance that broke in 1914 never assembles.