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Official Name: Combined Syndicates of America, United Socialist Syndicates of America (Syndicalist Alternate Name 1), Union of American Socialist Syndicates (Syndicalist Alternate Name 2), Union of America (Syndicalist Alternate Name 3), Free Syndicates of America (De Leonist), Popular National Union of America (Bellamyist), Commonwealth of America (AFL Alternate Name 1), United Federation of America (AFL Alternate Name 2), United States of America/Colombia (Browder, USA reunited Name 1), United Socialist States of America/Colombia (Browder, USA reunited Name 2), United Soviet Republics of America (Foster, USA reunited), Workers' Technate of America (Burnham), Socialist Union of America (Lovestone), Syndicate of America (Capone), Union of Socialist Syndicates of America (Capone Alternate Name), Syndicate of Capone (Nitti), Over-Syndicate (Dillinger), National Syndicate of America (Luciano), United People's Syndicates of America (Hoffa), Liberated Individual's Syndicates of America (Bonnie & Clyde), Egoist Union of Autonomous American Syndicates (Belbenoît), Free Syndicates of Libertalia (Seavey), Syndical Fiefdom of America (Ricca), Earthly Syndicate of Dismas and Gestas (Weiss)

Ruling Party: Unionist Faction

Ideology: Syndicalism

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• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Unsurprisingly for leftists, many high-ranking figures in the CSA are from historically-marginalized groups and can become the first individual of their race or gender to lead America, including Emma Goldman, Dorothy Day, Louise Bryant, Elizabeth Nord, Lucy Mason (women), Bayard Rustin (African), Sam Dolgoff (deaf), and Helen Keller (blind, deaf, and female).
• Chummy Commies: Ranging from Moderate Socialists to Anarchists, they all seek to get rid of America's inequality issues and racist lineage either through moderate reforms that slowly introduce minor solutions and pragmatic changes or radical uprooting changes that radically democratize all of America's economic and social issues through the top down or bottom up.

Civil War Presidents

William Haywood

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Role: President^note Head of State

Party: Unionist Faction

Ideology: Syndicalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
If there ever was a man to represent the power of the working class, it would be William Haywood. Haywood has seen all corners of the country and lived alongside the working man. Haywood opposed Craft Unionism, which he felt could be divided and conquered by Capital. Instead founding one union, the International Workers of the World, meant to represent all working interests. As the founder of the IWW, 'Big Bill' has battled the enemies of the people throughout his life: The capitalist opportunists, the labor slavehandlers, and even agents of the government. Quick to anger and unafraid of action, Haywood is the Man for Labor and the Man for America.

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• Cincinnatus: Once the CSA is victorious in the Civil War, Haywood will step down due to old age and have the Central Committee conduct a Second Constitutional Convention to decide the revolution's future.
• Red Baron: Haywood is nicknamed 'Big Bill' by his comrades, for his almighty presence as a fighter, and larger than life voice against capitalism and its detractors.

Jack Reed

Role: President^note Head of State (Haywood passes away during Civil War), (Centralist/Orthodox IWW Election - Reed elected)

Party: Unionist Faction, Syndicalist Union Faction (Centralist IWW Election), Socialist Party of America (Orthodox IWW Election)

Ideology: Syndicalism (Haywood succession/Orthodox IWW Election), De Leonism^note Syndicalism (Centralist IWW Election)

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
A writer, a trade union leader, a Senator, a journalist and a Syndicalist - John 'Jack' Reed is many things. After the death of his predecessor, Alexander Berkman, this fiery radical socialist took the reins of the American syndicalist movement, and he has led this organization to great success. While this long path from journalist to President has brought him many enemies, it also brought him many allies. He is determined to combine the popularity of the late chairman Haywood and the richness of syndicalist and assorted socialist doctrines from the European Third Internationale; becoming a truly charismatic, unifying Syndicalist demagogue who shall turn his country into what he perceives to be a perfect society.

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• Demoted to Extra: Jack Reed, leader of the CSA in vanilla Kaiserreich, was replaced in this role by Bill Haywood, and only takes charge if Haywood dies before the Civil War ends.
• Kangaroo Court: When the Fosterites come into power, Reed, along with Dewey and Green will be arrested and forced to trial, being denounced as Klan sympathizers and social capitalists.

Post-Civil War Presidents

Centralist Syndicalist Faction

Arturo Giovannitti

Role: President^note Head of State (Centralist IWW Election - Giovannitti elected)

Party: Syndicalist Union Faction

Ideology: De Leonism^note Syndicalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Born in Abruzzi Italy, Arturo was one of the hundreds of thousands who came to the United states seeking opportunity. Arturo instead found a ripe political climate for expanding workers' rights. Arturo was there during the 1912 Textile Strike of Lawrence, Massachusetts, where his illegal arrest and subsequent trial in a metal cage became a rallying point for the New England IWW. Arturo was acquitted of all charges, and became a socialist activist, first opposing the outbreak of the Weltkrieg, then the US's entry into the war. During the revolution, Arturo led an Italian American brigade out of New England and into the CSA territory under hostile fire. A talent for speaking and poetry elevated his campaign. Ultimately he was elected President as a true citizen.

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• An Immigrant's Tale: Giovannitti came to United States for a better opportunity. Only to instead use it to increase workers' rights like the Textile Strike of Lawrence, which leads him to get arrested for it and be acquitted from outrage for his treatment in his trial.
• Miscarriage of Justice: Giovannitti after being arrested illegally, was put in a metal cage during his trial. This led to outrage across America by socialists, leading him to be acquitted for it.
• Rebel Leader: Giovannitti led a brigade of Italian American socialist militias throughout New England territory and led them to reconnect with the CSA.
• Working-Class Hero: Giovannitti was one of the main organizers to the 1912 Textile Strike of Lawrence, he's a great speaker advocating for workers' rights, and was a militia leader during the civil war.

Harry Bridges

Role: President^note Head of State (Centralist IWW Election - Bridges elected)

Party: Syndicalist Union Faction

Ideology: Centralized Syndicalism^note Syndicalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Harry Bridges was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1901. When he turned 15, he was first introduced to radical labor politics through the Australian branch of the IWW. Emboldened by his contacts with fellow socialists, along with seeing the general deplorable conditions of the poor around the world, he participated in his first general strike in Australia in 1917. Three years later, in 1920, he would move permanently to the US due to the more plentiful work there. He settled in San Francisco where he joined other local activists in reviving the then-defunct International Longeshoremens Association. In 1934 a period of month-long negotiations between the twenty local branches of the ILA and the dock owners of SF broke down when two longshore workers were murdered. Bridges, the leading negotiator for the ILA during the standoff, convinced over 100 San Francisco unions to join together in a General Strike. The ILA fought the city to a standstill, and Harry Bridges was given credit for stopping further police violence. His later Presidential campaign often faced off against protesters who defied the new Amendment giving natural born citizenship to immigrants, and prevailed against them. Using this reputation, he launched a risky but successful campaigned that has lead him to the presidency.

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• I Choose to Stay: Permanently moved from Australia to America due to its plentiful work.
• Mistaken Nationality: When he moved to America in his youth, American socialists couldn't tell that he was Australian and mistook him for British, so they called him 'Limey' a term for British.
• Working-Class Hero: Bridges throughout his life has worked as a seaman in Australia and in America, and used his work to motivate involving himself with the IWW and union activism to engage in general strikes with him at the helm.

Elmer Allison

Role: President^note Head of State (Centralist IWW Election - Allison elected)

Party: Syndicalist Union Faction

Ideology: Centralized Syndicalism^note Syndicalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
A self-taught radical from Missouri, Elmer Allison was a founding member of both the Socialist Party of America and the IWW. He was a leading figure in the SPA's radical Washington affiliate, spending much of his life either working in the local cedar mills or atop a soapbox in Seattle's streets. A series of raids and near arrests by the Department of Justice saw him go underground, but he reemerged as a political figure when he helped lead the brief rebellion known as the Seattle Commune in 1923. During the Commune's existence he met Jack Reed, striking up a friendship with the famed journalist and following him to New York City. There he was a major figure in running Reed's numerous political campaigns and leading the SPA's entry into mainstream politics. Following the revolution, his close comradeship to Reed and his zealous socialist beliefs has made him an obvious candidate for the presidency. A candidacy he has gladly pursued!

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• Fire-Forged Friends: With Jack Reed. As Reed helped him go to New York City, and Allison in return helped Reed's campaigns, which can potentially lead him to be picked to succeed Reed in the Centralist IWW Election.

Ludwig E. Katterfeld

Role: President^note Head of State (Centralist IWW Election - Katterfeld elected)

Party: Syndicalist Union Faction

Ideology: Left Internationalism^note Syndicalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Born in Strasbourg under the German Empire and sent away to live with family in America at just 10 years of age, where he later ran away from home, Ludwig Katterfeld had a harsh and formative upbringing. After escaping his extended family, he took up work as a farmhand in Kansas, spending his teenage years balancing hard labor with honing his impressive oratory skills and sharp intellect. The next two decades were a turbulent time for Katterfeld, seeing him become a professed socialist and move from state to state to launch new political ambitions. After graduating college in 1910 he moved to Chicago and lead his own short-lived socialist party, the "Lyceum Bureau". He became involved with the Socialist Party of Washington and in 1916 launched a failed gubernatorial bid with them. In 1922 he was the provisional secretary of the Socialist Party of America, and later a representative in their behalf to the Third Internationale. It was in Paris he met Jack Reed, whom he accompanied back to America the very next year. In 1923 both men played a key role in the brief, radical Seattle Commune. The events of the commune compelled the bitter and austere Katterfeld to go underground, breaking with Reed's desire to go into mainstream electoral politics. From there on Katterfeld worked as an independent activist, not resurfacing until the Civil War. He did not have a chance to reconnect with Reed until the closing days of the revolution, with the latter on his deathbed. Compelled to honor his old friendship to Reed and armed with a lifetime of revolutionary experience, Katterfeld has launched into the spotlight with a narrow victory in the recent presidential race.

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• Dark Horse Victory: Is seen as a dark horse due to him being an independent underground activist with an unorthodox ideology as a syndicalist, but still can be elected as President by a narrow margin.
• Internal Reformist: Downplayed, Katterfeld attempted to enter electoral politics in his youth but quickly turned away from it and decided to go underground.
• Start My Own: Katterfeld attempted to lead his own political party the Lyceum Bureau, but it only lasted 2 years before it died off.

Orthodox Syndicalist Faction

Frank T. Johns

Role: President^note Head of State (Orthodox IWW Election - Johns elected)

Party: Socialist Party of America

Ideology: Syndicalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Initially a carpenter from Oregon, Frank Johns became the leading figure of the regional Socialist Labor Party. Running twice for congress and twice for the presidency, Johns seemed doomed to a lifetime of obscurity as a fringe party candidate. That was until he went through a near death experience in 1928, nearly drowning in an attempt to save a young boy whom had fallen in a frigid river. Forced to retire from the Socialist Labor Party in order to recover from the incident, Johns was given enough time to think and plot out a new career. He began to correspond with several members of the Socialist Party of America, and after being released from the hospital he went on to join them as a fiery orator. Emboldened by his heroism and having narrowly avoided death, Johns later threw himself into the second American civil war as a capable and courageous militia leader. Thanks to his military accomplishments and personal reputation, he has now finally been elected president, of a whole new America!

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• Internal Reformist: Johns attempted to run for Congress twice, and attempted to run for President twice, all of which failed.
• Rebel Leader: Johns after being hospitalized by attempting to save a child in a freezing river, led a band of militia in the CSA's army. He uses his military accomplishments to be seen as a major figure within the Syndicalists and to be elected President.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Role: President^note Head of State (Orthodox IWW Election - Flynn elected)

Party: Socialist Party of America

Ideology: Socialist Feminism^note Syndicalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
At a dusty underground socialist club in Harlem, Elizabeth Flynn's life as an advocate began. An early organizer for the IWW in New Jersey, Flynn felt the blunt of the political wrath against forming trade unions, and was arrested ten times. Flynn helped found the ACLU, which organized legal defense for strikers in the days before the International Labor Defense. In the lead-up to the civil war, Flynn helped organize the Longshoremen strike of the West Coast. Flynn's wartime speeches to the Central Committee to encourage conscription made her stand out to the numerous conscientious objectors in the Committee. Ultimately Flynn was elected to lead America as a shocking dark horse candidate. Some thought it absurd that a woman would stand at the forefront of the revolution, but the rebel girl herself had been at the spearhead all along, fighting since the founding of the IWW and now ready to build up a socialist America of her dreams.

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• Dark Horse Victory: Because of her identity as a woman, the syndicalist committee treats her with skepticism, with her qualifications as not the most popular of the potential candidates to be President. But she can still ultimately win the election regardless and become the first female President.
• Demoted to Extra: Flynn in Kaiserreich is the main successor to Jack Reed as the Syndicalist forerunner. Here in Kaiserredux, she's simply a candidate for the Orthodox Syndicalists.

Robert Minor

Role: President^note Head of State (Orthodox IWW Election - Minor elected)

Party: Socialist Party of America

Ideology: Centralized Syndicalism^note Syndicalism

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• Reasonable Authority Figure: During the Congressional Convention, Minor along with Reed suggests that a President should not be given executive independent power described by the Centralists or be simply a symbolic power described by the Anarchists. Instead a President should be an actual representative for the Congress and for the people to represent them accordingly.
• Red Baron: Minor's nickname is 'Fighting Bob' for his continual social activism through political cartoons.

John Bernard

Role: President^note Head of State (Orthodox IWW/1952 IWW/SLP Election - Bernard elected)

Party: Socialist Party of America, Industrial Workers of the World (Syndicalists won Constitutional Convention), Socialist Labor Party (Federalists won Constitutional Convention)

Ideology: Agrarian Syndicalism^note Syndicalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Initially a French immigrant, Bernard worked nearly a decade of his life in the iron mines of Minnesota, later enlisting in the army. He served along the Mexican Border during the Mexican Revolution, a year later returning to Minnesota but soon discovering himself to be blacklisted from employment because his trade union activism. Pursuing a career in firefighting, then as a politician, Bernard managed to be elected to the House of Representatives on the ticket of the Farmer-Labor Party in 1936. While in office, he became more and more aligned with Jack Reed's popular front of socialists, and began to campaign for friendlier relations between America and the Commune of France. Distinguishing himself as a diligent proletariat and cunning politician, John Bernard has gone a step further and made a successful run for presidency.

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• Internal Reformist: Bernard managed to get elected to the House of Representatives with the very moderate socialist Farmer-Labor Party to reform America's economic ideas to be more equal and fair.
• Red Scare: Was victim to this by being blacklisted from employment prior to the civil-war. Due to him participating in the Mexican Revolution, and for his trade union activism in Minnesota.
• War Hawk: Bernard in OTL and here favors to intervene in wars abroad America, where in OTL he advocated greatly to intervene in the Spanish Civil War favoring the Socialists in Republican Spain, and here volunteered in the Mexican Civil-War fighting on the side of the Zapatistas, and bringing closer relations between America and the Commune of France.

Anarchist Faction

Emma Goldman

Role: President^note Head of State (Anarchist Election - Goldman elected)

Party: Socialist Faction

Ideology: Socialist Feminism^note Syndicalism

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• Chummy Commies: Goldman can fulfill her own ideological dream of an Anarcho-Communist America by establishing a gift economy based on mutual aid where all is provided and wages are abolished, decentralizing America into autonomous communes so the military is voluntary militias, and abolishing private property where communes control communal property where all is owned by all while still retaining personal property.
• Witch Hunt: Is victim to this along with her circle if Browder takes power, with her and her circle getting arrested for being the most vocal anti-Browderists.

Dorothy Day

Role: President^note Head of State (Anarchist/Orthodox IWW Election - Day elected)

Party: Socialist Faction (Anarchist), Socialist Party of America (Orthodox IWW)

Ideology: Socialist Feminism^note Syndicalism

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See her entry in the American Union State page.

Modest Stein

Role: President^note Head of State (Anarchist Election - Stein elected)

Party: Socialist Faction

Ideology: Anarcho-Syndicalism^note Syndicalism

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• Authority in Name Only: Stein along with the other Anarchists, possess a symbolic President position. Meaning they don't exert any authority on any of the communes in the country. Justified since they're Anarchists.
• Witch Hunt: Is subjected to this if Browder takes power, as being part of Emma Goldman's circle who despise Browder. For despising him the most out of any other faction, he is removed from the IWW, and gets arrested for it.

Industrial Workers of the World/Socialist Labor Party

Eugene Dennis

Role: President^note Head of State (1944/1952 IWW/SLP Election - Dennis elected)

Party: Industrial Workers of the World (Syndicalists won Constitutional Convention), Socialist Labor Party (Federalists won Constitutional Convention)

Ideology: Centralized Syndicalism^note Syndicalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Born under the name Francis Xavier Waldron, and spending his early life as a laborer and IWW member in California, the young Waldron was driven into exile after the Californian Criminal Syndicalist Act nearly saw him imprisoned for revolutionary political activism. Fleeing to the Commune of France and taking up work as minor union politician, he became an important link between the Socialist Party of America and the Third Internationale. In 1935 he returned across the Atlantic, now hiding under the pseudonym "Eugene Dennis", to help organize Jack Reed's campaign in the coming presidential election. His services to Reed were soon rewarded with a series of influential positions within the Combined Syndicates, which served as the stepping stones for his own eventually presidential campaign.

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• Pen Name: Eugene Dennis is used as his hiding name to prevent the federal government from finding out about his revolutionary activities. His real name is Francis Waldron, but he's kept his pseudonym as his real name after the revolution.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: When the Fosterite Youth Wing starts accusing and attacking teachers for being reactionary and teaching reinforced racist educational material, Dennis gives the suggestion to calm down the students for being excessive on their response.
• The Exile: Turns into one after the AFL government destroys Foster's collectivist militias, because he aligned with his view on despising the AFL's desire to make Craft Unions the mainstream of revolutionary unionism.

Arnold Petersen

Role: President^note Head of State (1944 IWW/SLP Election - Petersen elected)

Party: Industrial Workers of the World (Syndicalists won Constitutional Convention), Socialist Labor Party (Federalists won Constitutional Convention)

Ideology: De Leonism^note Syndicalism

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• Taking Up the Mantle: Petersen was chosen to take over the Socialist Labor Party after his mentor Daniel De Leon died. He managed to bring the party back to life with his budgeting skills, and his radical devotion to his mentor's vision. And if President, can finally put his mentor's ideas to reality.

Elizabeth Nord

Role: President^note Head of State (1944/1948 IWW/SLP Election - Nord elected)

Party: Industrial Workers of the World (Syndicalists won Constitutional Convention), Socialist Labor Party (Federalists won Constitutional Convention)

Ideology: Socialist Feminism^note Syndicalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Elizabeth Nord grew up as the daughter of a family of poor English coal miners, having to spend her early teenage years toiling in a silk factory. Her family departed England a few years shy of the British Revolution, settling across the Atlantic in Rhode Island. In the United States Nord spent another decade as a factory worker during which she used her political finesse and determination to rise through the ranks of her local union, being elected Chairwoman. She became one of the key leaders of the Great Textile Strike of 1934, organizing the walkout of tens of thousands of workers across the country. On the outbreak of the Second civil war, she was a political representative of her union in Washington D.C, but quickly made her way across the frontlines to the Combined Syndicates of America. Repeating the same grueling political maneuvering that put her in charge of the Great Textile Strike, Elizabeth Nord has now risen to lead something far greater than a union or a strike, she has become the new President!

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• Reluctant Retiree: Nord is forced to retire when the Browderists take over.
• Working-Class Hero: Nord for her entire life lived in poverty, working in mines and factories. She used her political prowess to create labor unions and to organize the Great Textile Strike of 1934.

Louise Bryant

Role: President^note Head of State (1944 IWW/SLP Election - Bryant elected)

Party: Industrial Workers of the World (Syndicalists won Constitutional Convention), Socialist Labor Party (Federalists won Constitutional Convention)

Ideology: Socialist Feminism^note Syndicalism

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• Really Gets Around: In an interview while drunk, Bryant details 10 Socialists that she slept with ranging from the Americans: Eugene O'Neil, Andrew Dasburg, William C. Bullitt Jr., Eugene Debs, Al Capone, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman together, to the Russians: Leon Trotsky, Genrikh Yagoda, and Georgy Zhukov. It's played for laughs but it still somewhat damages her reputation as a trustable revolutionary figure, and makes her husband Jack Reed look like a cuckold.

Helen Keller

Role: President^note Head of State (1944 IWW/SLP Election - Keller elected)

Party: Industrial Workers of the World (Syndicalists won Constitutional Convention), Socialist Labor Party (Federalists won Constitutional Convention)

Ideology: Anarcho-Syndicalism^note Syndicalism

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• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: Keller in OTL was a famous author noted for her being both blind and deaf, and overcoming these disabilities through sheer determination and patience with her life long friend and translator Anne Sullivan. Here in KX, due to her Socialist and Anarchist beliefs is able to be elected in the CSA under the IWW Election.
• The Suffragette: Keller is a longtime supporter of the women's suffrage movement, supporting birth control, and is one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Sam Dolgoff

Role: President^note Head of State (1944/1948 IWW/SLP Election - Dolgoff elected)

Party: Industrial Workers of the World (Syndicalists won Constitutional Convention), Socialist Labor Party (Federalists won Constitutional Convention)

Ideology: Anarcho-Syndicalism^note Syndicalism

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• Defector from Decadence: Originally Dolgoff wasn't a radical political ideologue in his youth. Previously he was a moderate socialist in the Young People's Socialist League, until he left on his own accord and joined the IWW to enact radical Anarchist political change.
• Like Father, Like Son: Dolgoff took after house painting from his father as a child, and is consistently skilled at doing so even as an adult.

Eric Hass

Role: President^note Head of State (1948 IWW/SLP Election - Hass elected)

Party: Industrial Workers of the World (Syndicalists won Constitutional Convention), Socialist Labor Party (Federalists won Constitutional Convention)

Ideology: De Leonism^note Syndicalism

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• Almighty Janitor: Hass worked many dead-end jobs in his youth after college, only after coming into contact with the Socialist Labor Party, did he rise through the ranks very quickly as an organizer for the party on national speaking tours throughout America before it collapsed. This gave him enough influence to be put on the ballot for the Socialist Labor Party and to be elected President.

Henning A. Blomen

Role: President^note Head of State (1952 IWW/SLP Election - Blomen elected)

Party: Industrial Workers of the World (Syndicalists won Constitutional Convention), Socialist Labor Party (Federalists won Constitutional Convention)

Ideology: Anarcho-Syndicalism^note Syndicalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
A son of Massachusetts born in 1910, Henning was too young to experience the horrors of the Weltkrieg, but old enough to face the American Revolution in his prime. Initially an industrial worker in Cambridge, he was one of the few who did not leave his station the moment the first gunshots of the Second Civil War could be heard. A committed pacifist, Henning Blomen instead helped organize the chemical plant he worked at into a cooperative syndicate. His efforts were greatly appreciated by his more radical co-workers, who nominated him as a Massachusetts representative to the Combined Syndicates and helped him cross the front lines to New York City. Soon climbing his way up the political ladder, Henning Blomen has continuously made a name for himself with his unshakable optimism and iron will, running over a dozen major political races in his lifetime, the most recent of which has carried him all the way to the presidency.

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• Badass Pacifist: Blomen at the introduction of the Civil War, did not attempt to form violent resistance in the New England held Massachusetts, but instead organized his chemical plant into a cooperative syndicate. This impressed his more radical co-workers to nominate him as the CSA's representative of Massachusetts and helped him escape to the border of New York City to assist the CSA directly.

Congress of Industrial Organizations

Seymour Stedman

Role: President^note Head of State (1944 CIO Election - Stedman elected)

Party: Socialist Party of America

Ideology: Georgism^note Radical Socialism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
It was incomprehensible to many that a simple janitor would go on to become one of the Socialist Party of America's most prominent activists and legal advisers. Initially balancing his job as a janitor at the Northwestern University School of Law with taking evening classes, Stedman managed to pass the bar to became a lawyer in 1891. Although he was at first a democrat, the young Stedman became inducted into socialism when he helped defend Eugene V Debs during American Railway Union's great strike. His lifelong friendship to Debs saw him chosen as the SPA's vice presidential candidate on 1920, and after Debs' death he became a close advisor to Jack Reed. Having now outlived yet another close comrade, the old and somber Stedman has run a successful race to become the new president, intent on honoring his old friend's utopian dreams.

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• Almighty Janitor: Literally, Stedman previously lived his life as a simple janitor before becoming a lawyer getting introduced to socialism, and defending the likes of Eugene Debs from persecution. He then rose to become the SPA's Vice-President, due to his friendship with Debs, and for being a close advisor of Reed. He can potentially become the leader of America going from a lowly janitor to the President of the entire entire country.

William E. Rodriguez

Role: President^note Head of State (1944 CIO Election - Rodriguez elected)

Party: Socialist Party of America

Ideology: Bellamyism^note Radical Socialism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
The son of a Spanish immigrant to Illinois, William Rodriguez made his living painting houses, until he could eventually afford to pursue a legal degree. Inspired by his brother in law, a radical journalist named J. Louis Engdahl to join the American Socialist party and move to Chicago. The young Rodriguez managed to win a race for the Chicago city council as a dark horse candidate, becoming the first socialist and first Hispanic to sit on the council. He soon managed to use his newfound position to attack the city's transit companies and to seek legal reforms. Although eventually ousted by a democratic and republican unity candidate, Rodriguez did not give up on politics. He continued to practice law and ran a successfully campaign in 1933 to become a judge. Building on a lifetime of legal and political experience, his next triumph came when he ran his most recent successful presidential campaign.

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• Dark Horse Victory: Rodriguez originally was thought to fail during his bid in the Chicago City Council, yet somehow he won the bid and became a city council member as a Socialist.
• Internal Reformist: Rodriguez after moving to Chicago, managed to win a position in the Chicago City Council and spent his time by seeking reforms inside the city council and attacking Chicago's transit companies. After being ousted in the council, he still continued with electoralism and managed to become a judge to enact socialist and progressive reforms.

Morris Hillquit

Role: President^note Head of State (1944 CIO Election - Hillquit elected)

Party: Socialist Party of America

Ideology: Moderate Socialism^note Radical Socialism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
One of the oldest political figures in the Combined Syndicates, Hillquit was born in 1869, to a Jewish family living in Latvia. After his father lost his business, the young Morris and his dad crossed the Atlantic in search of a better life. Soon settled in the slums of New York, Hillquit would go on to found the Socialist Party of America alongside Victor Berger and Eugene V Debs. He ran for the senate in 1908 from New York City, garnering 21% of the votes. Despite this failure, he would later unsuccessfully run for mayor of NYC and afterwards help organize fellow socialist Meyer London's successful bid for congress. Despite suffering from numerous bouts of tuberculosis and frequent conflicts with the growing syndicalist wing of the SPA, Hillquit endured long enough to witness the revolution finally sweep through America. Although old and sickly, his seniority and eventful life has netted him a surprising victory in the latest presidential election. His age helped to invalidate dissenters who wanted a natural born citizen as President. Although some remain uncertain if he can finish his current term, President Hillquit has sworn he will serve the interests of all of America's proletariat, no matter his age or health.

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• Internal Reformist: Hillquit was one of the founders of the Socialist Party which attempted to subvert revolution and focus on reforming America through electoralism. He also attempted to become a Senator and Mayor for NYC, but both failed. Subverted, if Hillquit succeeds Steinbeck as Mayor in NYC.
• King on His Deathbed: Subverted. Hillquit is one of the oldest and sickly members of the CSA, he's dealt with chronic tuberculosis and is least the age of 67 by the time of the civil war ends and 75 when he's potentially elected. Even with no tuberculosis treatment at the time, he's still strong enough to live for a long time without dying as President.

Bayard Rustin

Role: President^note Head of State (1948 CIO Election - Rustin elected)

Party: Socialist Party of America

Ideology: Bellamyism^note Radical Socialism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Born in Pennsylvania, in the year of 1912, Rustin was raised in a family deeply affiliated with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He was personally acquainted with notables such as W.E.B. DuBois and James Weldon Johnson, developing left leaning beliefs at an early age. This best showed in 1936 when he organized a student strike at Wilberforce University, which he was expelled over. Cast adrift, the young Rustin moved to New York City where he joined the Young People's Socialist League and got to meet Norman Thomas and A. Phillip Randolph. With the outbreak of the civil war, Bayard Rustin became a political organizer and campaigner for the Combined Syndicates championing better race relations, increased desegregation, and the immediate overturning of Jim Crow in the newly liberated southern states. Now, decades after the revolution he has made his daring bid for the presidency despite the fact that Rustin's youth, skin color and known homosexual relationships have for long been targets of slander and ridicule. Although one might expect any one of those three to have stopped him, he has powered through regardless and been elected the first African-American head of state in American history.

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• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Rustin can potentially become the first African-American president of America, predating OTL by over 60 years.

Darlington Hoopes

Role: President^note Head of State (1948 CIO Election - Hoopes elected)

Party: Socialist Party of America

Ideology: Quaker Socialism^note Radical Socialism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Darlington Hoopes came from a notable family of Pennsylvania Quakers, during his time at boarding school he augmented his religious upbringing with an interest in radical socialism, going on to identify as a Christian Socialist. His ideological beliefs soon drew him close to fellow Christian Socialist, Norman Thomas and the rest of the Socialist Party of America. In 1930, Hoopes was elected to the House of Representatives in Pennsylvania, where his most celebrated accomplishment was completely outlawing child labor in his home state. Much like it did to Thomas, the outbreak of the civil war disgusted Hoopes. Although he could not deny its accomplishments in hindsight, his political cause after the war was to champion reconstruction and reconciliation between Americans. This benevolent, reformative platform earned him more and more influence in the new America, allowing him to make a bid for the presidency.

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• Internal Reformist: Hoopes having the luck of being a Representative of the House, was able to make Socialist reforms within the United States government like outlawing child labor. After the CSA came in to power, he created a platform of reformism calling back to his past political reforms as a form of modest and peaceful candidate to become President.

Oakley C. Johnson

Role: President^note Head of State (1952 CIO Election - Johnson elected)

Party: Socialist Party of America

Ideology: Broad Communism^note Radical Socialism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
A voracious reader since an early age, Oakley Johnson took up a career within academia, serving as a teacher and later principal at numerous schools in his home state of Minnesota. This lasted until his commitment to radical politics became more publicly known, and he was arrested in the middle of a seminar over having contributed money to the defense fund of arrested IWW members. Undeterred, Johnson moved to New York and became a full time activist in the Socialist Party of America, helping to promote interracial relations and the education of the proletariat. In 1936 he accepted a position of Docent at a university in Paris, spending most of the coming Civil War abroad. In Paris he helped maintain diplomatic relations between the Commune of France and his comrades home in America. Eventually making the trip to the new America, Oakley Johnson has used his diplomatic accomplishments and academic merits to woo the electorate!

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• Politically Motivated Teacher: Zig-Zagged. Johnson served as an apolitical teacher and principal in multiple schools throughout Minnesota, only until he brought up after learning about the Socialist cause, that defending IWW members through a defense fund ultimately led him to be arrested by the Department of Justice.

Noam Chomsky

Role: President^note Head of State (1952 CIO Election - Chomsky elected)

Party: Socialist Party of America

Ideology: Anarcho-Syndicalism^note Radical Socialism

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• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: Chomsky is a linguistics professor at the University of Arizona, and a vocal Anarcho-Syndicalist advocate. Here in Kaiserredux, he's a candidate in the 1952 CIO Election where's he's able to achieve his dream of an Anarcho-Syndicalist America.
• Young and in Charge: Chomsky is only 24 years old by the time the 1952 election comes out, making him the youngest person to be elected president in the CSA, and in general one of the youngest heads of state in the world.

American Independence League

Norman Mattoon Thomas

Role: President^note Head of State (Independence League Leadership Contest - Thomas elected)

Party: American Independence League

Ideology: Christian Socialism^note Radical Socialism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Norman Thomas has seen the highs and lows of social stature, and has remained dedicated to socialism the entire way through. From a newspaper boy to Princeton magna cum laude to conscientious objector, he has seen much and more of the world, but his time as a minister was perhaps the most important. By then an advocate of christian socialism, he decided to run for office. Prior to the Civil War, he had served as New York City's Mayor, and then as the vice-presidential candidate of Jack Reed. Inspired by the writings of Edward Bellamy, Thomas pivoted his pacifism during the war into advocacy for socialists living in the Federal lands to resist conscription and even create utopian societies for themselves. After the war, he used the experience he gained and his close friendship to Jack Reed to catapult him to prominence in the country. Preaching on behalf of the Nationalists, he lead the democratic socialists to victory in the constitutional convention. With a heart of gold and unshakable morals, Norman Thomas has ascended to the presidency.

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• Badass Pacifist: Thomas is a devoted pacifist thanks to his Bellamyist beliefs, and tells the people throughout the country to resist conscription and build societies of utopian quality for themselves.
• Demoted to Extra: Originally in Kaiserreich was one of Reed's main successors after the CSA's victory as the Moderate Socialist alternative to Syndicalism in America. Here in KX, he's only one of the candidates of the American Independence League.

John Dewey

Role: President^note Head of State (Independence League Leadership Contest - Dewey elected)

Party: American Independence League

Ideology: Bellamyism^note Radical Socialism

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• Kangaroo Court: Is victim to this if the Fosterites come into power, Dewey, along with Reed and Green will be arrested and forced to trial being denounced as Klan collaborators and social capitalists.
• Politically Motivated Teacher: Dewey while at the University of Chicago was very open about his progressive views and his democratic socialist ideals. Constantly denouncing the repressive politics of America against socialists while being a professor for decades on end.

Roger Nash Baldwin

Role: President^note Head of State (Independence League Leadership Contest - Baldwin elected)

Party: American Independence League

Ideology: Bellamyism^note Radical Socialism

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• Draft Dodging: Baldwin attempted to do this during World War 1, but failed and was sentenced to jail for a year.
• Pacifist: Baldwin a long time pacifist, attempted to oppose American involvement in World War 1, attempted to draft dodge and is a devout follower of Bellamy's pacifist ideals.

Heywood Broun

Role: President^note Head of State (Independence League Leadership Contest - Broun elected)

Party: American Independence League

Ideology: Radical Progressivism^note Radical Socialism

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• Internal Reformist: Broun attempted to run for Congress in 1930 under thr Socialist Party hoping to put his columnist skills to action, but failed.

Arthur Ernest Morgan

Role: President^note Head of State (Independence League Leadership Contest - Morgan elected)

Party: American Independence League

Ideology: Quaker Socialism^note Radical Socialism

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• Close-Knit Community: Morgan is very committed to supporting local communities and has even lived with them. His Quakerist beliefs mkee him think that small towns and communities that were connected well with eachother, would be the perfect utopian view of Bellamyism.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Despite Morgan being very committed to Bellamyist Quaker Socialism and pacifism, he is racist towards non-whites, especially Asians and Africans, who he views as the most unfit and immoral of all people. He is also a Eugenicist that prefers for undesirable cultures to be rooted out of the gene pool, due to him considering them being "uncivilized people".

Meyer London

Role: President^note Head of State (Independence League Leadership Contest - London elected)

Party: American Independence League

Ideology: Moderate Socialism^note Radical Socialism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Born in Tsarist Lithuania under the grip of Russian influence. Meyer's first ambition was to become a Talmudic scholar like his father. The adverse conditions of Russia forced Meyer's family to relocate to New York City, where Meyer became a printer. Printing for Yiddish publications, Meyer had fallen into one such group of radical intellectuals that encouraged him to become a lawyer. Starting in the 1890s, Mayer joined Eugene V. Deb's Social Democratic Party, and was a leading organizer of the 1910 New York Clockmakers Strike. A coalition ticket with Progressives allowed Meyer to become the first of many socialists in Congress. Meyer opposed the U.S's entry into the Weltkrieg, and yet aided the McAdoo administration in promoting militancy. Meyer even angered Jewish labor by promoting partisan Jewish organizations above Zionist labor groups. Meyer went undercover during the Crisis of 36, and re-emerged following the war championing many of the issues he was against. Meyer the pro-Zionist war hawk was much more popular, even against protesters claiming he couldn't run for President as an immigrant.

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• Internal Reformist: London was one of the very few socialists who ever made it inside Congress, and made reforms to attempt move the United States towards Socialism. Here if the CSA chooses for the Independence League to lead them, or if Steinbeck is elected as Mayor of New York City, he can be elected as Mayor of NYC or President of the CSA. London can officially lead a state towards socialism directly through reformism.

American Federation of Labor

David Dubinsky

Role: President^note Head of State (Initial/1940 AFL Leadership Contest - Dubinsky elected)

Party: American Federation of Labor

Ideology: Liberalized Syndicalism^note Social Democracy

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Dubinsky came from the former Russian Empire to America, a Polish Jew who had spent his early life organizing bunds, leading strikes and campaigning for the Bolsheviks. These actions netted him a prison sentence in Siberia, but the young Dubinsky managed to miraculously escape back to western Russia and catch a ship to carry him across the Atlantic. Spending much time working in the factories of New York City, Dubinsky became increasingly alienated from the union bureaucracy around him, starting a long-time personal feud between him and the IWW. He initially saw unions as inherently apolitical platforms that should seek further cooperation with the right wing to uplift all workers despite political beliefs, and that compromises with the federal government and business sector were practically mandatory for a union's success. Dubinsky would change his opinion after witnessing first the Great Depression, then the steady rise of Huey Long and finally the outbreak of the American civil war. Although he never made amends with the "union bureaucrats", Dubinsky ceased to compromise with the right wing and capitalism, taking on more politically extreme views. When the civil war finally ended he had been singing the praises of the new America, and already planted the seeds for a political career. Despite his controversial past, it appears David Dubinsky has now been able to reap what he has sown, rising to the position of President in spite of protests from old nativists who resist the proclamation giving him natural born rights.

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• Reasonable Authority Figure: Dubinsky prior to the Civil War attempted to collaborate with right-wing workers and the federal government to properly develop a union, due to his view that unions should be apolitical. Subverted after the depression and Civil War, his opinion changed becoming more radicalized in the process in his beliefs, and ceased to cooperate with them.

John L. Lewis

Role: President^note Head of State (Initial/1940 AFL Leadership Contest - Lewis elected)

Party: American Federation of Labor

Ideology: Clientelism^note Social Democracy

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
The son of Welsh immigrants whom had settled in Iowa, John Lewis grew up in a company town dominated by the coal industry. At the age of 17 he went to work as a minister, becoming more and more embroiled in his hometown's local politics and the nationwide labor movement. In 1907 he made a failed attempt to run for mayor, and later became a full-time union advocate who traveled across the steel belt. Although he initially bickered with William Z Foster over the merits of syndicalist trade unions compared to his preferred moderate and apolitical unions, the devastation of the Great Depression saw him slowly embrace more radical beliefs. Despite having once been a liberal and a republican, Lewis could not find it in his heart to endorse President Hoover's second term. Increasingly disillusioned with competitive capitalism, Lewis struck up negotiations with the Socialist Party of America and the IWW. When the American Revolution came, he had made up his mind for which side to stand on. Although his reactionary past continued to haunt him, Lewis eventually succeeded in finding a synthesis between radical unionism and his own moderate ideology, being elected as President in the latest election.

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• Internal Reformist: Attempted to become Mayor in the town of Lewis to move towards a more labor-oriented government, but failed. He also after becoming President, decides to move away from radical Syndicalism and towards a more moderate Liberal labor-union oriented ideology.
• Old Shame: Lewis is disgusted by his past as a Democrat and Republican supporter, only moving past this phase in his life once the Great Depression radicalized his beliefs towards unionism. He is still ashamed by his support as President but tries to put it behind him.
• Threatening Mediator: Lewis is very good at resolving disputes, to the point where his motto would fall along the lines of 'award your friends greatly and punish your enemies severely for not getting along'.

William Green

Role: President^note Head of State (Initial/1940 AFL Leadership Contest - Green elected)

Party: American Federation of Labor

Ideology: Humanistic Capitalism^note Social Democracy

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• Kangaroo Court: If the Fosterites come into power, Green will be arrested along with Reed, and Dewey, and forced to trial being denounced as Klan sympathizers and social capitalists.
• Realpolitik: Wanting to keep Craft Unions as the dominant force in labor organizations, Green forces reforms through the government that rollback voting rights and representation from industrial unions. Which only leads to unrest due to Green's crackdowns on opposition from his actions.

Ernest Hemingway

^{General Hemingway}

Role: General, President^note Head of State (1944 AFL Election - Hemingway elected)

Party: American Federation of Labor

Ideology: Paternal Socialism^note Social Democracy

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• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Polydactyl Cats are created through Hemingway' breeding programs, and develops a very strong affinity for them, especially during his depressed days.
• The Generation Gap: Hemingway appeals to the Lost Generation as a masculine, individualistic, paternalist who is fond of the battlefield. This makes his support very broad and very widespread to all walks of life.

Walter Waters

Role: General, President^note Head of State (1944 AFL Election - Waters elected)

Party: American Federation of Labor

Ideology: Syndicalist-Alinged Social Democracy^note Social Democracy

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• A Father to His Men: Upset that veterans of war get treated poorly, Waters reforms his militia into the 'Bonus Army' and marches thousands of armed soldiers to demand financial compensation for their efforts fighting in the civil-war. The government will accept this demand, promote Waters into a General, and give pensions out to each and everyone of his soldiers.
• Old Soldier: Waters is one after the end of the Civil War, and is one of the more apolitical candidates who bases his policies more for war veterans and garners support from left-leaning centrists.

George Meany

Role: President^note Head of State (1944/1948/1952 AFL Election - Meany elected)

Party: American Federation of Labor

Ideology: Market Socialism^note Social Democracy

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• Passing the Torch: Meany due to his youth makes him a perfect candidate for a new-age politician to get started on helping veterans and shift the political landscape to fit a new America.

Philip Murray

Role: President^note Head of State (1944 AFL Election - Murray elected)

Party: American Federation of Labor

Ideology: Progressive Conservatism^note Social Democracy

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• Passing the Torch: Murray similarly to Meany above, is a young politician eager to shift America's new political landscape towards a more equal America. Although not as radical as Meany and much more moderate with his views, he still is eager to move America towards a better future.

Frank Zeidler

Role: President^note Head of State (1948 AFL Election - Zeidler elected)

Party: American Federation of Labor

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Social Democracy

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Frank Paul Zeidler, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on September 12, 1912, has spent much of his life in poor health - an unfortunate reality that prevented him from completing his studies. Perhaps because of this, Zeidler was drawn to socialism from a young age - growing up in the throes of the Great Depression, Zeidler read extensively from left-wing writers like Norman Thomas and Eugene V. Debs. When asked about his reasons for supporting socialism in 1933, Zeidler cited the tenets of international brotherhood, the struggle for peace, equal distribution of goods, cooperation, and democratic planning. He would become active in the Socialist Party of America's youth wing, the Young People's Socialist League, and shortly before the civil war became the head of the Milwaukee branch of the Red Falcons, another SPA organization aimed at educating children. Frank was aided in his activist work by his brother, Carl Zeidler, who would go on to volunteer for the navy of the Combined Syndicates, only to die in the effort.

Despite his perpetual sickly health and the untimely death of his brother, Zeidler did what he could to support the Syndicate war effort on the home front, and attended the constitutional convention on the behalf of Milwaukee mayor Daniel Hoan. In the post-war political scene, Zeidler was seen as relatively neutral figure (outside of his disdain for the Unity League), and was tapped by the Workers' Party to be the successor to President Flynn largely for this reason - after all, the WPA holds dearly to the idea of a symbolic executive, and the martyrdom of his brother generates much sympathy among veterans of the revolution. Only 36 years old on his election, President Zeidler comes in as a symbol of the unity between the senior professional revolutionaries and a generation of young socialists that have swiftly been maturing with the new America.

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• Reasonable Authority Figure: Zeidler is seen as this due to him being a unifying figure with the old revolutionaries as well as the younger generation of socialists.
• The Determinator: Lifelong has Zeidler struggled in his desire for socialism. From his poor health leading to incomplete education, his difficulties growing up in the Great Depression, and the death of his brother in the civil war. He has never given up his ideals, and by becoming President, overcomes all of his struggles throughout his life he dealt with.

Hugh Mulzac

Role: Admiral, President^note Head of State (1948 AFL Election - Mulzac elected)

Party: American Federation of Labor

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Social Democracy

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• Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Mulzac can become the first Afro-Caribbean president of America.
• Old Soldier: An admiral previously for the US fought in WWI. Mulzac threw his tie in the CSA because of the racial discrimination he faced throughout serving the US Navy. Hoping to overcome it by being an admiral for the CSA, and especially as President of a new Socialist America.

Walter Reuther

Role: President^note Head of State (1948/1952 AFL Election - Reuther elected)

Party: American Federation of Labor

Ideology: Liberal Socialism^note Social Democracy

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• Internal Reformist: Reuther is a radical progressive union man, who seeks to create projects like the Peace Corps to promote international pacifism, humanitarian aid, and to completely reverse racist history of America.

Daniel J. Tobin

Role: President^note Head of State (1948 AFL Election - Tobin elected)

Party: American Federation of Labor

Ideology: Kleptocracy^note Social Democracy

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• Corrupt Politician: Tobin despite being a thorough labor organizer and union activist, was responsible for corruption inside union activity specifically the union Teamsters and seems to embrace this corruptive union view. Although obviously nowhere near as corrupt as the Caponeists.

Lucy Randolph Mason

Role: President^note Head of State (1948 AFL Election - Mason elected)

Party: American Federation of Labor

Ideology: Radical Progressivism^note Social Democracy

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• Sweet Home Alabama: Mason is from a respected southern family, and is one of the main figures responsible for removing the effects of Jim Crow from the Deep South through Operation Dixie. She creates reform with the help of the Young Women's Christian Association, by promoting stricter labor laws that protect workers from oppressive working conditions and minimalist pay. She also coordinates with the Southern Baptist Convention to address labor rights and interracial goals to mitigate lynchings and terrorist bombings from the ODP. All of which to make the Deep South a real home for all who live there.

Daniel Hoan

Role: President^note Head of State (1952 AFL Election - Hoan elected)

Party: American Federation of Labor

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Social Democracy

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Daniel Webster Hoan is one of the enduring figures of the American left - born in Waukesha, Wisconsin on March 12, 1881, Hoan enrolled in the University of Wisconsin and swiftly laid out the foundation for the university's Socialist Club, back when it had a mere four members. Hoan was admitted to the state bar in 1908 and moved to Milwaukee, where the longtime Socialist Party member began working with Victor Berger, editor of The Milwaukee Leader, in advocating for radical reforms to the city: public ownership of utilities, urban development programs, free legal, medical, and educational services, and other policies widely unheard of in most of the country. Hoan decided to enter politics by running for city attorney in 1910, where he edged out a plurality against both Democratic and Republican opponents - in the same year, Emil Seidel was elected mayor of Milwaukee, the first socialist to leader to a major American city. In 1916, Hoan succeeded him as mayor, a position that he continued to hold all the way until the Second Civil War. As mayor, Hoan codified what is sometimes called 'constructive socialism', emphasizing practical reforms over haughty revolutionary ideals - some more itinerant socialists derisively called the Milwaukee branch members 'sewer socialists' for their constant touting of their city's sewer system.

Hoan silenced most doubts to his commitment during the war, proving invaluable to organizing the Milwaukee war effort. With the revolution won and the Socialist Party's factions diverging, Hoan was expected to remain loyal to the moderate party core - however, shocking some observers, the breakaway Workers' Party declared that they would nominate him as their candidate for President in the 1940 elections. More astute observers noted that Hoan had not always gotten along with other Socialists during his time with the party, and that he didn't seem to share the remaining membership's pacifist tendencies.

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• Internal Reformist: Hoan is a long time advocate of party politics introducing socialist reforms. He started off becoming a city attorney in Milwaukee becoming the first Socialist to become elected in an American city, then during the civil war preferred reform over revolution, and sided with moderates instead of radicals. And if elected President, can finally insert his long desired reforms throughout America.

Browderists

Earl Browder

^{Black Hair Browder}

^{Red Chief Browder}

^{Comprador Browder}

Role: President^note Head of State (Browder wins Constitutional Convention Election)

Party: Communist Political Association

Ideology: Popular Communism^note Totalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Born in Kansas, in the year of 1891, Browder became a committed socialist age 16. His adherence to the socialist party of America was unshakable, and through an early friendship with William Z Foster, he became a syndicalist. As the years passed, the two men began to drift apart. While Foster favored an authoritarian form of syndicalism, Browder began to see more and more limits with the movement. The American revolution has according to him, proven that the same beliefs and strategies used in Europe cannot be applied to America. His new economic policy has been built with inspiration from Bolshevism, reinterpretations of Maximism, and plenty of original thought. Browder also intends to end the persistent trend of industrial unionism in Congress, and to pursue lecherous religious elements within the socialist state. Browder has never abandoned the socialist party of America, but with his new authoritarian position he intends to ensure that the party will never abandon him.

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• Adaptational Heroism: In contrast to the caricature of Stalin in the source game, Browder is comfortably the most moderate option to lead a Totalist America here, compared to the extremism of Foster and Lovestone, the barely-disguised fascism of Burnham, and the self-serving hedonism of Capone.
• Chummy Commies: Browder's personal sub-ideology Popular Communism places a heavy focus on winning the faith of the people not through purges and terror, but a gradual shift in social consciousness accomplished by presenting communism through the lens of traditional American values.
• Eagleland: Browder offers an exceedingly rare communist version of Type 1, a philosophy he calls "Apple Pie Communism". Rather than completely disconnecting left-wing thought from American patriotism, Browder synthesizes the two beliefs, applying a communist coat of paint to comforting American holidays and values and presenting Marxism as the natural final leg of the journey started by the American Revolution.
• Glorious Leader: As leader of the CSA, Browder endears himself to the people, so much so that they call him The Boss. They know he fights for them at all costs, and they will do the same for him, should the need ever arise.
• Pragmatic Hero: Browder rules over an admittedly dictatorial system which is nevertheless unashamedly progressive and which guarantees a healthy degree of financial and personal autonomy to its citizens.

Browder Successors

Gus Hall

^{General Hall}

Role: General, Second-in-Command^note Head of State (Browder chooses Hall to be Second-in-Command), President^note Head of State (Browder dies - Hall succeeds)

Party: Communist Political Association

Ideology: Popular Communism^note Totalism

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• Co-Dragons: To Earl Browder with Gil Green. Hall gives suggestions thorought his reign regarding purging former allies in the IWW and replacing them with cronies, and bringing an idea along with John Ballam to pledge loyalty to any USAS elected officials. He shares being Browder's closest allies with Green a much more efficient, respected, and experienced organizer but less charismatic and not as visionary as Hall.
• Meet the New Boss: Besides being Browder's favorite, he can become the new head of the Browderists following his leader's main vision by carrying on his ideas committedly.

James W. Ford

Role: Second-in-Command^note Head of State (Browder/Foster chooses Ford to be Second-in-Command), President^note Head of State (Browder/Foster dies - Ford succeeds)

Party: Communist Political Association (Browder succession), Trade Union Unity League (Foster succession)

Ideology: Popular Communism^note Totalism (Browder succession), William Foster Thought^note Totalism (Foster succession)

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See his entry in the United States of America page under the Black Revolt folder.

Max Bedacht

Role: Second-in-Command^note Head of State (Browder chooses Bedacht to be Second-in-Command), President^note Head of State (Browder dies - Bedacht succeeds)

Party: Communist Political Association

Ideology: Popular Communism^note Totalism

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• Dark Horse Victory: Bedacht along with Ballam, are among the less popular figures within the Browderists. As Bedacht is seen as a moderate and mediating figure that doesn't seek to cause controversy, and is more focused on providing welfare to the people.
• Internal Reformist: Bedacht in his youth joined the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland to initiate labor strikes, attempted to become a Senator for New York in 1934 to spread Communism through the Senate and advocates for anti-authoritarian Impossibilist Socialism.

John J. Ballam

Role: Second-in-Command^note Head of State (Browder/Foster chooses Ballam to be Second-in-Command), President^note Head of State (Browder/Foster dies - Ballam succeeds)

Party: Communist Political Association (Browder succession), Trade Union Unity League (Foster succession)

Ideology: Popular Communism^note Totalism (Browder succession), William Foster Thought^note Totalism (Foster succession)

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• Conflicting Loyalty: Not Ballam himself, but he along with Hall introduces the idea for CPUSA/USAS's elected leaders to pledge loyalty to Browder/Foster with the Hall-Ballam Act due to loyalty being contentnious after Browder/Foster's purges.
• Dark Horse Victory: Similarly to Bedacht, Ballam is a more unusual candidate to succeed Browder due to being a more unknown political figure and a less polarizing figure within the communist movement.

Gil Green

Role: Second-in-Command^note Head of State (Browder chooses Green to be Second-in-Command), President^note Head of State (Browder dies - Green succeeds)

Party: Communist Political Association

Ideology: Popular Communism^note Totalism

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• Co-Dragons: To Browder, With Gus Hall. As he along with Hall are Browder's closest proteges and are considered to be the most likely to succeed him if he were to die. Although Green is much less influential than Hall due to Hall being more charismatic, Green is still a respected experienced party official, a workhorse in the Communist Youth League, and responsible for strikes that kickstarted the CSA's revolution.
• Incredibly Obvious Bug: Averted. After Browder begins his purges of rival factions, Green is assigned to plant phone bugs in Congressman's phones so the newly created Socialist Party Surveillance Section can spy on them. The bugs in the phones are not at all easily identifiable.

Fosterites

William Z. Foster

Role: President^note Head of State (Foster wins Constitutional Convention Election)

Party: Trade Union Unity League (TUUL)

Ideology: William Foster Thought^note Totalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
A radical labor organizer who spearheaded the syndicalist movement in America, William Z Foster has practically become a legend on the American left. His leadership in the strikes of the early 20th century and his commitment that the Socialist Party of America adapt Syndicalist policies has cemented him as one of its chief ideologies. His famous manifesto, "Toward Syndicalist America" has served as the guidebook for every aspiring Totalist in the country, containing Foster's culminated ideals for how to rebuild the nation of America into what it is today. With the recent victories of the Vanguard movement of the Combined Syndicates, Foster was uplifted to lead the new nation. Several of Foster's older, more socially ambitious ideas now come to the fore. This includes plan to reform the socialist human being as a whole, and to re-orient American morals towards the vanguard of socialism.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Foster's path is based on Mao Zedong's rule in real life, include a strict adherence to vanguardism and dialectical materialism, while his efforts to entirely remake society are similar to Mao's Cultural Revolution. His "Great Sprint Forward" focus is a direct reference to Mao's Great Leap Forward, as well.
• Eat the Rich: After establishing the Revolutionary Guards, Foster will use them to commit outright classicide against the bourgeoisie. Indeed, the focus to do this is called "Kill the Rich" in game files.
• The Exile: After the AFL come into power, collectivist militias rise up under Foster to decry 'social capitalists' after their National Guildist system is criticized for being fake socialists. Eventually if the AFL decide to take down the militias, Foster along with his confidant Shulman and a fellow sympathetic Syndicalist Dennis will go into exile.
• The Purge: Colorfully-named focuses such as "Purge Reactionaries", "Destroy Social Capitalism", and "Liquidate the Bourgeoisie" dominate Foster's branch of the USSA focus tree as he forcefully annihilates what he sees as the debased remnants of America.

Foster Sucessors

William Weinstone

Role: Second-in-Command^note Head of State (Foster chooses Weinstone to be Second-in-Command), President^note Head of State (Foster dies - Weinstone succeeds)

Party: Trade Union Unity League

Ideology: William Foster Thought^note Totalism

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• Internal Reformist: Weinstone attempted to run for Mayor in New York and as a Senator to install communist reforms through the government. Both attempts failed.
• Naturalized Name: Weinstone isn't actually his real last name, it's Weinstein. He changed his name to Weinstone after coming to America to sound less Jewish out of fear from the anti-semitism he faced in the Russian Empire.

Jack Shulman

Role: General, Second-in-Command^note Head of State (Foster chooses Shulman to be Second-in-Command), President^note Head of State (Foster dies - Shulman succeeds)

Party: Trade Union Unity League

Ideology: William Foster Thought^note Totalism

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• Defiant to the End: Shulman after getting arrested and tried by the Browderists, decries Browder as an 'Ahistorical Reactionary'.
• Drugs Are Bad: Shulman opposes Tobacco usage, and only encourages its usage as medicinal. Proclaiming it to be unhealthy capitalist consumerist junk, so he can increase fitness for a healthier workforce and army.
• In Spite of a Nail: Shulman OTL was Foster's Secretary in the 50s for several years throughout his organizing in the Deep South, until he left America because of the Communist Party's direction after supporting Nikita Khrushchev denounced Josef Stalin. He moved to Albania and stayed in China for his political leanings. Here Shulman sticks with Foster as one of his closest confidants and can potentially succeed him if he dies.
• Kangaroo Court: If Browder takes over, Shulman will be sent to death with a court saying that he conspired against the state.
• The Exile: Goes into exile along with Dennis and Foster after their collectivist militias are destroyed by the AFL government.

Jay Fox

Role: Second-in-Command^note Head of State (Foster chooses Fox to be Second-in-Command), President^note Head of State (Foster dies - Fox succeeds)

Party: Trade Union Unity League

Ideology: William Foster Thought^note Totalism

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• Defector from Decadence: Fox originally was an Anarchist who associated himself with Anarchist thinkers and partook in Anarchist strikes and protests, but shifted away from them due to being constantly cracked down and arrested after William McKinley's assassination gave an excuse to crack down on Anarchists. He turned to Syndicalism with labor union activism and striking as a means to start a revolution, where he became a close associate with Foster. He then left Syndicalism to finally settle with Communism, and stuck with Foster in the Communist Party.

Israel Amter

Role: Second-in-Command^note Head of State (Foster chooses Amter to be Second-in-Command), President^note Head of State (Foster dies - Amter succeeds)

Party: Trade Union Unity League

Ideology: William Foster Thought^note Totalism

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• Internal Reformist: Downplayed. Amter attempted to run for governor of New York two separate times and ran as a Senator for Ohio, to influence Communist politics through reforms. This failed and he stuck with Foster as a close confidant for his revolutionary politics.

Butler's Coup

Smedley Butler

^{President Butler}

Role: Field Marshal, President^note Head of State (Butler coups Foster)

Party: American Independence League

Ideology: Red Junta^note Radical Socialism, Bellamyism^note Radical Socialism (President Butler)

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Marine, General, and Senator Smedley Butler has done the unthinkable. In the revolution's darkest moment, he has overthrown the would-be usurpers and traitors in the Centralist clique, and kept the flame of liberty alive. The old general has been an invaluable warrior for the Combined Syndicates, and his latest startling victory has endeared him to the population tenfold. Although Butler has confided to friends and political allies that he is uneasy to now be in the spotlight, he has agreed to take on the job as the temporarily acting president of the new America until the scars torn open by totalism can once again be healed.

In-Game Biography: (President) ^{Click to Show}
A Marine, a General, and even a Senator, Smedley Butler has not been idle in recent years. Few expected, though, that he would ascend to the presidency, but this shocking turn of events has occurred. With the war over, Butler has committed himself to the political realm, becoming the country's leader militarily as well as politically. He considers himself a part of the Nationalist faction, having been inspired by Bellamy's ideas in his earlier years, and will now work to advance their platform on the national stage. Many have likened him to George Washington, and it is certainly true that the two war heroes have led the country through the hardships of their times with immense support behind them. With this support and Butler's own determination, there is no doubt he will bring his vision to life.

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• Four-Star Badass: As the most qualified general in the CSA's military, Butler can ascend to even greater heights if his doctrinal recommendations are followed, building the American Red Army under a solid officer corps, excellent discipline and its own Red Marines.
• Martial Pacifist: Butler argues that there is nothing wrong with defending a nation in war, but conflict abroad must not be sought. He proclaims that he'll keep the CSA out of offensive wars at all costs, but instead will focus on defending America.
• Red Baron: Butler becomes known as the Savior of the Revolution after overthrowing the dictator William Z. Foster.

Burnhamites

James Burnham

^{Supreme Burnham}

Role: President^note Head of State (Burnham wins Constitutional Convention Election)

Party: American Workers Party^note 
The American Workers Party formed in 1933 and was once headed by pacifist A.J. Muste, seemingly destined to fuse with James Cannon's Trotskyists in the CLA before being supplanted by the Trotskyist-turned-Social Nationalist and Conservative Socialist James Burnham. Now walking its own path, the AWP advocates for a syncretic mixture of shackled Technocratic and Nationalized economics supporting an Americanist breed of militarist Socialist Nationalism that borders on outright Populist Conservatism at times while desiring a loyal Managerial class to work on behalf of the Revolution while the Vanguard around Burnham focuses on the destiny of America, free from day to day worries as our elevated and supreme executive. Burnham's AWP further pursues the creation of a greater American popular state supported and expanded by a form of red pseudo-imperialism pursued for the good of the American people and the wider Revolution, despite outcries from their rivals across the Left that call them reactionaries in sheep's clothing. Under James Burnham and his strange views, his wide coalition of varied Leftists, Populists, Imperialists, Nationalists, and Conservatives, and his growing military-industrial complex, Burnham has created the New World's first true breed of 'Neo-Socialism' that the AWP now brings to the entire nation in a questionable triumph of American Totalism.

Ideology: Burnhamite Thought^note Totalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
A fellow-travelor of the far-left ever since he's been politically active, James Burnham began as a starry-eyed supporter of the Russian Revolution before seeing it quashed. His hope in socialism was revitalized with the British and French Revolutions only to witness the Empires of old not only persist but reform themselves internally. Influenced by French Sorelianism and his personal readings of Machiavelli he has come to view politics as largely a power struggle between competing elites with revolutions only temporarily succeeding in nations that failed to modernize their elite into a "Managerialist" class of technocratic minds as opposed to the aristocrats and capitalists of old. Viewing imperialist expansion as an inevitable consequence of their growing bureaucracies and promotion of national myths Burnham is dismayed by what he views as the infighting and factionalism promoted by traditional syndicalism and views socialism's only hope as being the promotion of a highly technocratic-oriented leadership alongside an American Nationalism that shall glue the nation together where socialism can not. His American Workers Party (AWP) is currently a combination of his followers who de facto left the SPA's Federalist faction with him, Lovestoneites, national-syndicalists and Howard Scott's Technocratic Movement. While the latter has questionable loyalties to socialism he has promised to place them in charge of the economy in return for allowing him to run the political sphere in the power-oriented method he views as necessary.

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• Emperor Scientist: Howard W. Scott and his technocrats are appointed by Burnham to maximize efficiency if allowed to coordinate America's largest industries via an industrial board.
• The Gulag: Enemies of the state are classified Gamma Class by Burnham, and will carry out manual labor until found to be politically rehabilitated by their overseers.
• Ironic Name: Burnham's campaign to reach out to every Canadian citizen and alert them of the imperialists is called 'Red Scare'.
• Right Hand Versus Left Hand: Burnham collects information on prominent socialists and spreads rumors that Representatives are already trying to gain the President's favor, laying the groundwork to ensure his potential enemies will be too busy fighting each other to unite against him.
• Rushmore Refacement: Burnham can replace the face of Theodore Roosevelt on Mount Rushmore with his own.
• Trading Bars for Stripes: The Iron Brigades consist of death-row prisoners given heavy body armour and combat-enhancing drugs, who will be granted clemency if they survive in whatever war they serve in.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: The most dictatorial and hawkish of all CSA leaders, Burnham creates an American Empire painted red, with violence and suppression of even other socialists the norm in his regime.
• War Hawk: Burnham dedicates the CSA to military conquest so that they could spread true socialism across the world.

Burnham Successors

Jay Lovestone

^{Lovestone Alaska portrait}

Role: Second-in-Command^note Head of State (Burnham chooses Lovestone to be Second-in-Command), President^note Head of State (Burnham dies - Lovestone succeeds)

Party: American Workers Party (Lovestoneite) ^note The farthest left wing of the AWP, represented by the new Director-in-Chief Jay Lovestone and his supporters, aims to ensure that the Socialism practiced in America truly matches the exceptional quality of its people. Merging elements of Bukharinite inspired Market Socialism, rabid anti-Syndicalist stances, and certain elements of Burnhamite Thought, Lovestonites have become the majority within the American Workers Party after the death of James Burnham. While still holding to his authoritarian managerial style of rulership and the concept of Socialism in One Nation, sometimes even on One Continent, Lovestoneism advocates have also taken a harsh stance on Technocrats run mad, hoping to subjugate them so they can be ensured to benefit Socialism and the never-ending Revolution above all.

Ideology: Lovestoneism^note Totalism

In-Game Biography: (Alaska) ^{Click to Show}
Jay Lovestone was born as Jacob Liebstein in Belarus. His father moved to America, and became attached to Socialist ideas, eventually joining the fledgling American Communist Party. As Communism became overshadowed by Syndicalism, Lovestone refused to adapt, keeping true to his Communist ideas even has Communism collapsed. This gained him many enemies within the new Socialist Party of America, who he refused to support. As America broke out into Civil War, Lovestone begrudgingly supported the Combined Syndicates, however, was exiled once it was found out that he was feeding information about the government to MacArthur. With nowhere else to flee; Lovestone took a ship to the last place that would take him in, Alaska. Now in Alaska, Lovestone has rallied other exiled to his side, and helped for the new neo-socialist ideas that were made famous in Alaska. Now in charge of Alaska, Lovestone will set out to reform the Last Frontier with new socialistic ideals.

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• Anti-Mutiny: Lovestone launches a coup against James Burnham because he thinks that Burnham strayed too far from the ideas of class solidarity, class struggle and socialism in favor of nationalism and technocracy.
• The Coup: Lovestone comes into power through a coup against James Burnham.
• The Gulag: Lovestone advocates for the transformation of Alaska into a giant prison colony, since those who try to escape would have to trudge through thousands of miles of barren wilderness.
• War Hawk: According to Lovestone's Permanent Revolution theory, America should push for revolutions in other nations using its military might, invest in militarization, and promote martial values not just among the military but the national proletariat.

James P. Cannon

Role: President^note Head of State (Centralist IWW Election - Cannon elected), (Foster/Burnham dies - Cannon succeeds)

Party: Syndicalist Union Faction (Centralist IWW Election), Trade Union Unity League (Foster succession), Communist League of America (Opposition)^note 
Founded in 1928 by James P. Cannon, Max Shactman, and Martin Abern after their expulsion from the CPUSA before it was later torn apart by the bitter rivalry between Foster and Browder, the Communist League of America (Opposition) is the predominant - and only surviving - Trotskyist party in America. Dedicated to ideas of Left Internationalism in pursuit of the Permanent World Revolution due to America's unique place in the world as a new Socialist power untethered to previous power structures, freeing the nation to pursue the global revolutionary struggle without hindrance, the CLA is dedicated to their singular goal despite the failings of their ideological namesake, but are much maligned by their fellow Leftist across the spectrum and across America, finding few allies outside of major urban centers like New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, and other hubs of Slavic emigres within America, though they have found some purchase within the IWW and the AWP. Under Cannon and his Internationalist coalition in the CLA, America shall embrace what they perceive to be the true form of Bolshevism as they prepare to take up the torch of Global Communism. (Burnham succession)

Ideology: Left Internationalism^note Syndicalism (Centralist IWW Election), Left Internationalism^note Totalism (Foster/Burnham successor)

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Personally mentored by Big Bill Haywood and well versed in the struggles of the American left, James Cannon became an unshakable presence within the socialist party of America. Although initially a fanatic adherent to Bolshevism, the failure of the Russian revolution contrasted with the triumph of the French syndicalists made Cannon adopt a more libertarian view on socialism. As a formal representative of the SPA, he spent much time abroad in France and Britain, before returning to America after the outbreak of the civil war. Helping to organize foreign volunteers and the Internationale's advisers, he cemented his reliability as a brilliant administrator. With the war won, Cannon would immediately start to build the momentum needed to run for president, and has now finally fulfilled his ambition!

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• Start My Own: Originally, Cannon was a part of the CPUSA before being kicked out by Foster and Browder. Because of the extreme stark contrast of his views towards their more authoritative ideology, he formed the Communist League of America (Opposition) to create a party of like-minded Trotskyists, where their ideas can flourish under his leadership.
• War Hawk: Cannon is a committed Trotskyist firmly believing in his idea of Permanent Revolution and that Global Communism should be achieved through liberating other nations around the world for the namesake of ideological drive.

Lyndon LaRouche

Role: President^note Head of State (Burnham dies - LaRouche succeeds)

Party: American Workers Party^note 
The American Workers Party formed in 1933 and was once headed by pacifist A.J. Muste, seemingly destined to fuse with James Cannon's Trotskyists in the CLA before being supplanted by the Trotskyist-turned-Social Nationalist and Conservative Socialist James Burnham. Now walking its own path, the AWP advocates for a syncretic mixture of shackled Technocratic and Nationalized economics supporting an Americanist breed of militarist Socialist Nationalism that borders on outright Populist Conservatism at times while desiring a loyal Managerial class to work on behalf of the Revolution while the Vanguard around Burnham focuses on the destiny of America, free from day to day worries as our elevated and supreme executive. Burnham's AWP further pursues the creation of a greater American popular state supported and expanded by a form of red pseudo-imperialism pursued for the good of the American people and the wider Revolution, despite outcries from their rivals across the Left that call them reactionaries in sheep's clothing. Under James Burnham and his strange views, his wide coalition of varied Leftists, Populists, Imperialists, Nationalists, and Conservatives, and his growing military-industrial complex, Burnham has created the New World's first true breed of 'Neo-Socialism' that the AWP now brings to the entire nation in a questionable triumph of American Totalism.

Ideology: Burnhamite Thought^note Totalism

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• Commie Nazis: Having previously dug into a sordid history, LaRouche combines his predecessor's Socialist beliefs with various brands of bigotry that leave him ostracized by other socialists in the party.
• Meet the New Boss: LaRouche attempts to simulate Burnham's vision for America by sticking to his values although with his bizarre personal beliefs like the re-introduction of the gold standard, a Bering strait bridge/tunnel, and investing in nuclear energy research.
• Young and in Charge: Being born in 1918, would make LaRouche at the game 16 years old. When Burnham dies, LaRouche is most likely in his early 20s. This is also what made LaRouche a protege and successor for Burnham.

Ronald Reagan

Role: President^note Head of State (Burnham dies - Reagan succeeds)

Party: American Workers Party^note 
The American Workers Party formed in 1933 and was once headed by pacifist A.J. Muste, seemingly destined to fuse with James Cannon's Trotskyists in the CLA before being supplanted by the Trotskyist-turned-Social Nationalist and Conservative Socialist James Burnham. Now walking its own path, the AWP advocates for a syncretic mixture of shackled Technocratic and Nationalized economics supporting an Americanist breed of militarist Socialist Nationalism that borders on outright Populist Conservatism at times while desiring a loyal Managerial class to work on behalf of the Revolution while the Vanguard around Burnham focuses on the destiny of America, free from day to day worries as our elevated and supreme executive. Burnham's AWP further pursues the creation of a greater American popular state supported and expanded by a form of red pseudo-imperialism pursued for the good of the American people and the wider Revolution, despite outcries from their rivals across the Left that call them reactionaries in sheep's clothing. Under James Burnham and his strange views, his wide coalition of varied Leftists, Populists, Imperialists, Nationalists, and Conservatives, and his growing military-industrial complex, Burnham has created the New World's first true breed of 'Neo-Socialism' that the AWP now brings to the entire nation in a questionable triumph of American Totalism.

Ideology: Burnhamite Thought^note Totalism

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• Historical In-Joke: Reagan's ascent mirrors the real Burnham's ideological change from Trotskyism to Neoconservatism.
• Internal Reformist: After falling under the party line, Reagan seeks to reform the American Workers Party to a more moderate flavor, favoring to de-readicalize the party and to make it more progressive reflecting Burnham's later positions in life before he died.

Lawrence Dennis

Role: President^note Head of State (Burnham dies - Dennis succeeds)

Party: American Workers Party^note 
The American Workers Party formed in 1933 and was once headed by pacifist A.J. Muste, seemingly destined to fuse with James Cannon's Trotskyists in the CLA before being supplanted by the Trotskyist-turned-Social Nationalist and Conservative Socialist James Burnham. Now walking its own path, the AWP advocates for a syncretic mixture of shackled Technocratic and Nationalized economics supporting an Americanist breed of militarist Socialist Nationalism that borders on outright Populist Conservatism at times while desiring a loyal Managerial class to work on behalf of the Revolution while the Vanguard around Burnham focuses on the destiny of America, free from day to day worries as our elevated and supreme executive. Burnham's AWP further pursues the creation of a greater American popular state supported and expanded by a form of red pseudo-imperialism pursued for the good of the American people and the wider Revolution, despite outcries from their rivals across the Left that call them reactionaries in sheep's clothing. Under James Burnham and his strange views, his wide coalition of varied Leftists, Populists, Imperialists, Nationalists, and Conservatives, and his growing military-industrial complex, Burnham has created the New World's first true breed of 'Neo-Socialism' that the AWP now brings to the entire nation in a questionable triumph of American Totalism.

Ideology: Burnhamite Thought^note Totalism

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• Commie Nazis: Dennis is more Nazi than Commie thanks to his affiliation in far-right circles and his socialist leanings are practically non-existant thanks to his pro-Corporatist views. But he still hates Capitalism and everything that it stands for and is a very close confidant to Burnham along with his Socialist views.
• Irony: Despite Dennis in OTL being very much a Fascist sympathizer, and here still flirts with far-right racist circles, was born a mixed child and hid this fact thorought his life. Despite propagating a xenophobic and nationalist ideology.
• Kangaroo Court: Dennis is picked off if Lovestone succeeds Burnham, and can be either forced to retire or be tried and exectued.
• Meet the New Boss: He's considered the only successor that Burnham truly trusted and liked, favoring him the most.

Technocrats

Orthodox Technocrats

Howard C. Scott

Role: Second-in-Command^note Head of State (Burnham chooses Scott to be Second-in-Command), Director-in-Chief^note Head of State (Technocrat council chooses Scott)

Party: Technocracy Incorporated^note 
Technocracy Inc. has long served in the shadow of Burnham and then Lovestone, but are now in a position of power of their own accord, ready to reshape society according to their technocratic ideals. Led by Director Howard Scott, supported by his friend, famous geophysicist and long-time right-hand man Marion King Hubbert, and a clique of loyal experts including Walter Rautenstrauch, Seymour Melman, Edward Condon and J. Robert Oppenheimer. The movement is not without a certain factionalism, however, as evidenced by the existence of the so-called 'Green' faction, led by Benton MacKaye and Leland Olds, calling for a form of agrarian and environmentalist technocracy, and the 'Red' faction of Stuart Chase and Alice Barrows, supporting the mixing of technocratic ideals with certain Communist, Syndicalist or Georgist ideas. Some technocrats also doubt Scott's oratory and leadership skills, and even question his technical competence...

Ideology: Technocracy^note Totalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Ever the enigmatic figure, nicknamed 'The Mysterious Young Man' by many during his initial rise, Howard Scott has risen to lead a new America bathed in the crimson glow of his Technocratic dream. Born in Virginia in 1890, little else is known about Scott's background and early life other than that he never finished high school but somehow also claims to have studied and graduated from Columbia University in New York - a claim supported by his lifelong friend and fellow Technocrat M. King Hubbert. Working in NYC in various construction camps, he picked up on-the-job engineering experience, growing into a kind of 'Bohemian engineer.' With newfound experience and drive, he worked together with Hubbart, and the pair worked for the IWW before they embarked to create Technocracy Incorporated, but that was after the failure of Scott's earlier attempt at spreading his ingenious message with his defunct Technical Alliance. Now, with the Revolution under his command after the failures and tyranny of his former ally Lovestone were revealed, Director in Chief Scott shall lead this new America under the Monad of Technocracy towards an efficient and prosperous utopia supported by syncretic Socialist views and the rest of America's non-authoritarian vanguard.

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• Cult of Personality: In the Technate, All Hail Howard Scott! is a phrase every American should use every day. Scott has brought America out of the dirt, dowsed the fires of civil chaos, built a shiny new and efficient utopia, and continues to work toward Technocratic perfection. All shall salute this hero as his associates do, and all shall wear the Technocratic uniform as he wears himself.
• Emperor Scientist: Scott establishes a Technocratic political system based around appointed scientists and engineers who are above petty partisanship and political bias. Local elected governments still exist, though mediated by Technocratic councils.
• Performance Anxiety: Once ascendant, it is revealed Scott has a severe phobia of public speaking. His fear is to the point where it has the potential to undermine his newly formed cult of personality. In order to instill confidence in the new government, Scott's regime can opt for a more confident (as well as a more handsome) public figurehead.
• Red Baron: Nicknamed 'The Mysterious Young Man' during his rise as a very unique and enigmatic character.
• Rushmore Refacement: Scott can replace the face of Theodore Roosevelt on Mount Rushmore with his own like Burnham.
• Take Over the World: Scott's ultimate goal is uniting the entire planet under a Global Technate, ruled by Technocratic principles. He is one of the few leaders who can gain cores worldwide when doing a world conquest, through one risks open war with previously allied leftist governments.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Role: Director-in-Chief^note Head of State (Scott removed from position - Oppenheimer replaces)

Party: Technocracy Incorporated^note 
Technocracy Inc. has long served in the shadow of Burnham and then Lovestone, but are now in a position of power of their own accord, ready to reshape society according to their technocratic ideals. Led by Director Howard Scott, supported by his friend, famous geophysicist and long-time right-hand man Marion King Hubbert, and a clique of loyal experts including Walter Rautenstrauch, Seymour Melman, Edward Condon and J. Robert Oppenheimer. The movement is not without a certain factionalism, however, as evidenced by the existence of the so-called 'Green' faction, led by Benton MacKaye and Leland Olds, calling for a form of agrarian and environmentalist technocracy, and the 'Red' faction of Stuart Chase and Alice Barrows, supporting the mixing of technocratic ideals with certain Communist, Syndicalist or Georgist ideas. Some technocrats also doubt Scott's oratory and leadership skills, and even question his technical competence...

Ideology: Technocracy^note Totalism

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• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: Oppenheimer in OTL was a nuclear physicist, known for his work on the Manhattan Project for developing the atom bomb. After its usage in WWII, he ashamed himself for life on viewing such catastrophic damage. He was then persecuted later in life during the McCarthyist era for his Communist sympathies, and had his awards removed because of it. Here in Kaiserredux, with the CSA ruling America, he is not persecuted and allowed to work on the Manhattan Project and potentially become the new face of Scott's Technocratic Technate.

Marion King Hubbert

Role: Field Marshal, Director-in-Chief^note Head of State (Scott removed from position - Hubbert replaces)

Party: Technocracy Incorporated^note 
Technocracy Inc. has long served in the shadow of Burnham and then Lovestone, but are now in a position of power of their own accord, ready to reshape society according to their technocratic ideals. Led by Director Howard Scott, supported by his friend, famous geophysicist and long-time right-hand man Marion King Hubbert, and a clique of loyal experts including Walter Rautenstrauch, Seymour Melman, Edward Condon and J. Robert Oppenheimer. The movement is not without a certain factionalism, however, as evidenced by the existence of the so-called 'Green' faction, led by Benton MacKaye and Leland Olds, calling for a form of agrarian and environmentalist technocracy, and the 'Red' faction of Stuart Chase and Alice Barrows, supporting the mixing of technocratic ideals with certain Communist, Syndicalist or Georgist ideas. Some technocrats also doubt Scott's oratory and leadership skills, and even question his technical competence...

Ideology: Technocracy^note Totalism

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• Dragon Ascendant: Subverted. Hubbert is Scott's longtime right-hand-man, and can become the new head of the government after Scott steps down, but it's only considered to be a representative position where Scott still holds the power.

Utopian Technocrats

Harold Loeb

Role: Director-in-Chief^note Head of State (Technocrat council chooses Loeb)

Party: Continental Committee on Technocracy^note 
Where Technocracy Incorporated was in the shadow of Burnham and Lovestone, the Continental Committee on Technocracy was in the shadow of Techocracy Incorporated. The two most prominent figures in the technocratic Futurist organization are famous writers Harold Loeb and Ernest Hemingway, both personal friends, yet the CCT is in essence a conglomerate of different organizations such as the Technical Alliance, the New Machine and the Utopian Society of America, divided on many issues but unified in their pursuit of an aesthetic, democratic and artistic technocratic revolution. A Futurians faction led by activist David Lasser also exists, aboborating internationalist socialist and utopian technocratic ideals. Although the movement is unified, certain dissensions exist, including between Loeb and Hemingway themselves, with the latter encouraging a more gradual approach to societal transformation, where Loeb's approach is much more rapid.

Ideology: Utopian Technocracy^note Radical Socialism

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• Emperor Scientist: Loeb adheres to a form of utopian technocracy where everything will be organised and dictated, and run slick and smooth like a well-oiled machine.
• Take Over the World: Loeb shares Scott's desire to unite the world under a Global Technate, and can also gain cores worldwide when doing a world conquest.
• Unwanted False Faith: Diehard and zealous loyalists of Loeb regard him as a prophet and herald, even though Loeb himself has pushed back against these ideas.

Upton Sinclair

Role: Director-in-Chief^note Head of State (Sinclair allowed to be face of Loeb's government)

Party: Continental Committee on Technocracy^note 
Where Technocracy Incorporated was in the shadow of Burnham and Lovestone, the Continental Committee on Technocracy was in the shadow of Techocracy Incorporated. The two most prominent figures in the technocratic Futurist organization are famous writers Harold Loeb and Ernest Hemingway, both personal friends, yet the CCT is in essence a conglomerate of different organizations such as the Technical Alliance, the New Machine and the Utopian Society of America, divided on many issues but unified in their pursuit of an aesthetic, democratic and artistic technocratic revolution. A Futurians faction led by activist David Lasser also exists, aboborating internationalist socialist and utopian technocratic ideals. Although the movement is unified, certain dissensions exist, including between Loeb and Hemingway themselves, with the latter encouraging a more gradual approach to societal transformation, where Loeb's approach is much more rapid.

Ideology: Utopian Technocracy^note Radical Socialism

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See his entry in the United States of America page under the Pacific States folder.

David Lasser

Role: Director-in-Chief^note Head of State (Futurians allowed power)

Party: Technocracy Incorporated^note 
Technocracy Inc. has long served in the shadow of Burnham and then Lovestone, but are now in a position of power of their own accord, ready to reshape society according to their technocratic ideals. Led by Director Howard Scott, supported by his friend, famous geophysicist and long-time right-hand man Marion King Hubbert, and a clique of loyal experts including Walter Rautenstrauch, Seymour Melman, Edward Condon and J. Robert Oppenheimer. The movement is not without a certain factionalism, however, as evidenced by the existence of the so-called 'Green' faction, led by Benton MacKaye and Leland Olds, calling for a form of agrarian and environmentalist technocracy, and the 'Red' faction of Stuart Chase and Alice Barrows, supporting the mixing of technocratic ideals with certain Communist, Syndicalist or Georgist ideas. Some technocrats also doubt Scott's oratory and leadership skills, and even question his technical competence... (Scott succession), Continental Committee on Technocracy^note 
Where Technocracy Incorporated was in the shadow of Burnham and Lovestone, the Continental Committee on Technocracy was in the shadow of Techocracy Incorporated. The two most prominent figures in the technocratic Futurist organization are famous writers Harold Loeb and Ernest Hemingway, both personal friends, yet the CCT is in essence a conglomerate of different organizations such as the Technical Alliance, the New Machine and the Utopian Society of America, divided on many issues but unified in their pursuit of an aesthetic, democratic and artistic technocratic revolution. A Futurians faction led by activist David Lasser also exists, aboborating internationalist socialist and utopian technocratic ideals. Although the movement is unified, certain dissensions exist, including between Loeb and Hemingway themselves, with the latter encouraging a more gradual approach to societal transformation, where Loeb's approach is much more rapid. (Loeb succession)

Ideology: Technocracy^note Totalism (Scott succession), Utopian Technocracy^note Radical Socialism (Loeb succession)

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• Start My Own: Lasser is the leader of the Futurian faction of the Technocrats. Originally, they were science-fiction fans, who turned eventually into a mainstream faction of the Technocrats, with many different names of famous scientists and physicians in the party. They are committed to evolving American society into their own version of an internationalist, revolutionary, and progressive Utopian Technocracy.

Caponeists

Alphonse Capone

^{Chairman Capone}

Role: Field Marshal, President^note Head of State (Capone wins Constitutional Convention Election), Chairman^note Head of State (Capone consolidates control)

Party: La Casa Nostra - Centralist Clique

Ideology: Mafioso Socialism^note Totalism

In-Game Biography: ^{Click to Show}
Alphonse Gabriel Capone, known more commonly as "Al Capone", was born in New York City to Italian immigrants. His upbringing was tough, the streets of Brooklyn shaped his world views whilst his Catholic upbringing taught him that morals matter little in the modern world. Capone understood from a young age that in order to survive you have to be ruthless, the cutthroat world of business carved Capone into a prominent businessman profiteering off prohibition. Bootlegging proved successful and Capone expanded his growing empire into Chicago from where he took over failing businesses wrecked by economic stagnation. He also never forgot his roots and used his newfound wealth to set up soup kitchens for the homeless and provide honest work for the jobless. Despite accusations of involving himself with gangs and all sorts of illegal matters he developed a reputation amongst the working class as a "man of the people". Capone became a prominent supporter of labour unions, especially the IWW, when the Second Civil War broke out Capone launched himself into politics. Aligning himself to the Centralist Faction, advocating for union control over all aspects of life he has clashed with anarcho-syndicalists who accuse him of being a potential dictator. Furthermore his gang affiliations have once again struck his credibility, accusations have emerged of Capone using the Chicago Mafia to intimidate political opponents. Now in control of the CSA, this bootlegging businessman turned defender of proletariat must decide the future of America and socialism.

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Capone purges Smedley Butler by forcing him to confess that he was plotting with a group of industrialists and business magnates to overthrow Capone. In real life, the Business Plot was described by Butler as a fascist veterans' organisation formed by rich businessmen for a coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• But Not Too Foreign: Both of Capone's parents were immigrants from Italy, and he can take advantage of his heritage to establish closer ties with Benito Mussolini's or Calogero Vizzini's Socialist Republic of Italy.
• The Don: A prominent mobster, Capone recruits all kinds of criminals into the ranks of the CSA, and turn the CSA into a Mafioso State if he becomes Chairman.
• Full-Circle Revolution: If Capone becomes Chairman of the CSA, the workers of America will only find themselves at square one, with Capone's criminal allies being as oppressive as the bourgeoisie used to be.
• Hookers and Blow: As his mental state degrades, Capone's quotidian parties get more and more out of hand. Over time, reports of these parties get more and more disturbing, including events such as sexual assault, regular assault, and people dying during the party from drug overdoses.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: Capone pledges allegiance to the CSA soon after it rebels against the federal government. In truth he doesn't actually give a shit about socialism, and only seeks to further his own power and that of the mob.
• The Purge: Chairman Capone will ban both the AFL and the IWW and remove all of their members from positions of power, and snuff out any signs of dissent to his rule in the armed forces.
• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: As infamous a mobster the real Capone was, he never had a real political career.
• Secret Police: In order to secure his position and hunt down reactionaries, Chairman Capone will form a secret police force known as the Revolutionary Office of Strategic Services. Political Commissars patrol the ranks, ready to snuff out any whispers of disloyalty, and every day they come out with new lists of traitors to the revolution.
• Totalitarian Gangsterism: Under the façade of socialism, Chairman Capone will turn the CSA into a Mafioso State. As they reign, the mobs institute harsh protection rackets on citizens under their rule and get rid of those who do not pay up with little repercussions. Businessmen grow increasingly wealthy through price gouging, actively helped by the government fixing high prices for everyday goods. Every man, woman and child in America lives in fear, fear of Capone and the ROSS. Social Credit scores, which are completely arbitrary and awarded solely based on loyalty to the Boss, allow people to economically drain those with lower Social Credit scores.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Capone has cultivated an image through careful good deeds. Such as providing jobs for the jobless and opening Soup Kitchens for the hungry, creating an image as a great man of the people and a Socialist saviour of America.
• Whole-Plot Reference: Capone's path is basically one big reference to Kim Newman's Back in the USSA series, where he succeeds Eugene Debs as leader of America following a socialist revolution.

Capone Successors

Albert Francis Capone

Role: General, Chairman^note Head of State (Albert succeeds his father)

Party: La Casa Nostra - Centralist Clique

Ideology: Mafioso Socialism^note Totalism

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• It Runs in the Family: Albert inherited his father's disabilities and diseases and took after his father's business as a skilled bootlegger and con-man.
• Nepotism: Albert can be given a minor role in the organization or even become leader thanks to being the son of Capone.

Ralph Capone

Role: General, Chairman^note Head of State (Albert removed, Ralph succeeds his brother)

Party: La Casa Nostra - Centralist Clique

Ideology: Mafioso Socialism^note Totalism

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• Affectionate Nickname: Ralph is nicknamed 'Bottles' for running his non-alcoholic bottling operations in Chicago.
• Red Baron: Ralph when he was being hunted by the Chicago Crime Comission, was also nicknamed 'Public Enemy Number Three' due to his brother being number 1.

Charles Floyd

Role: General, Chairman^note Head of State (Ralph removed, Floyd succeeds Capone)

Party: La Casa Nostra - Centralist Clique

Ideology: Mafioso Socialism^note Totalism

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• Just Like Robin Hood: Floyd during his bank robberies in Oklahoma, burned mortgage papers to relieve debt-ridden citizens from banks. To the point where he was nicknamed by locals 'the Robin Hood of the Cooksoon Hills'
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Floyd is pretty much only known as 'Pretty Boy Floyd', and is practically never referred by his first name.
• Red Baron: Floyd is known as 'Pretty Boy Floyd'. Despite not sounding the most badass, the guy is an efficient criminal.

Frank Nitti

Role: General, Field Marshal, Chairman^note Head of State (Caponeist Congress votes on a successor - Nitti wins power struggle)

Party: La Casa Nostra - Centralist Clique

Ideology: Mafioso Socialism^note Totalism

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• The Dragon: To Capone, Nitti has always been at Capone's side as his closest follower and has been somewhat successful at sniffing out Ricca's subversive plans.
• Meet the New Boss: Nitti is an orthodox Caponeist who promises to follow the last wishes of his boss as closely as possible.

John Dillinger

Role: General, Chairman^note Head of State (Caponeist Congress votes on a successor - Dillinger wins power struggle)

Party: La Casa Nostra - Centralist Clique

Ideology: Mafioso Socialism^note Totalism, Socialist Security State^note Totalism (Dillinger creates Police State)

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• Police State: Dillinger turns America into what all criminals hate and fear: a police state, albeit one without any actual police. Instead, organised crime will enforce law and order on their own.

Lucky Luciano

Role: General, Chairman^note Head of State (Caponeist Congress votes on a successor - Luciano wins power struggle)

Party: La Casa Nostra - Centralist Clique, All-Union Party of the Organization (Luciano embraces Mobster Populism)

Ideology: Mafioso Socialism^note Totalism, Mafioso Socialism^note Radical Socialism (Orthodox Mobster Populism followed), Popular Communism^note Radical Socialism (Browderist Mobster Populism followed), Crime Syndicate^note Social Democracy (Liberal Mobster Populism followed), Paternal Socialism^note Social Democracy (Democratic Mobster Populism followed), Paternal Socialism^note Social Conservatism (Conservative Democratic Mobster Populism followed)

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See his entry in the United States of America page under the New York City folder.

Johnny Torrio

Role: Chairman^note Head of State (Torrio selected over Luciano)

Party: All-Union Party of the Organization, The Organization (Torrio follows Liberalized Mobster Populism)

Ideology: Clientelism^note Social Democracy, Crime Syndicate^note Social Liberalism, Market Liberalism, Social Conservatism (Torrio follows Liberalized Mobster Populism)

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• Red Baron: Torrio's nickname is 'The Fox' for his cleverness and craftiness.
• Token Good Teammate: Downplayed. Torrio is one of the better members of the Mafioso, and can lead to more liberal-minded reforms and create a market socialist styled government, instead of the Capitalistic psuedo-Socialist system. However, these reforms are very much In Name Only and don't change much, and are largely only used to get the people on the idea of Liberalized Mobster Populism so they'll like their oppressors more.

Jimmy Hoffa

^{AFL Hoffa}

Role: Chairman^note Head of State (Caponeist Congress votes on a successor - Hoffa wins power struggle), President^note Head of State (1952 AFL Election - Hoffa elected)

Party: All-Union Syndicate Party of the Organization, American Federation of Labor (AFL Election)

Ideology: Mafioso Socialism^note Totalism, Corn Communism^note Totalism (Khrushchev runs Ukraine, Hoffa takes influence), Kleptocracy^note Social Democracy (AFL Election)

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• Corrupt Politician: Since Hoffa became a well-known criminal, it corrupted his politics when he's elected as President in the AFL.
• Meet the New Boss: Despite Hoffa's promises to remodel the Caponeist system, little changes for the average American. Hoffa effectively rules with just as mighty of an iron fist as Capone once did, only one wrapped in velvet and disguised by fancy words and populist policies.

Clyde Chestnut Barrow & Bonnie Elizabeth Parker

Roles: Generals, Co-Anarchs^note Heads of State (Caponeist Congress votes on a successor - Barrow wins power struggle)

Party: La Casa Nostra - Centralist Clique, All-Union Syndicate Party of the Organization (Galleanists cooperated or local democratic individualism)

Ideology: Illegalism^note Totalism, Illegalism^note Radical Socialism (Working with Galleanists), Social Democracy (Local individual democracy followed), Anarcho-Communism^note Totalism (Anarcho-Caponeism followed)

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• A Lighter Shade of Black: Barrow & Parker are able to move their Individualistic Anarchist theory away from criminalism greatly, by moving towards a more egalitarian and equal society if they were to follow the Insurrectionary Galleanist Anarchists, move towards localized individual democracy, or even follow stateless Anarcho-Caponeism in mind without the radical individualism.
• Anarcho-Tyranny: Influenced by Individualist Anarchism, Bonnie and Clyde turns America into a criminal paradise where individual freedoms and rights are promoted over all other pursuits, all maintained at the barrel of their tommy guns.
• Red Baron: Barrow is known as 'Champion' because of all of his criminal deeds and escaping death, effectively beating the system.

René Belbenoît

Role: Field Marshal, Anarch^note Head of State (Belbenoît kills Barrow & Parker)

Party: La Casa Nostra - Centralist Clique

Ideology: Illegalism^note Totalism, Illegalism^note Syndicalism (Parisian Egoists cooperation), Illegalism^note Radical Socialism (Galleanists cooperation), Anarcho-Syndicalism^note Syndicalism (Egoist Anarcho-Syndicalism followed)

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• A Lighter Shade of Black: If Belbenoît were to follow Illegalism from the help of the Parisian Egoists, or the Galleanist Anarchists, then Belbenoît's criminalistic Egoist hyper-individualist violent free state will turn towards a more egalitarian and anarchist-oriented and stateless criminal commune.
• Anarcho-Tyranny: Belbenoît, an Illegalist Anarchist, creates a criminal state that treats individual self-interest as the absolute foundation of morality. Survival of the fittest reigns and each individual is all totally free to do as they please in a barely contained system free of oversight.
• Token Good Teammate: If Belbenoît is able to kill Barrow & Parker, he is able to take over the country with his own Egoists at his side. While this may seem like it changes very little, he is for caring about furthering the Internationale's cause and joins them when Barrow & Parker are killed, and is able to change the country towards Egoist Anarcho-Syndicalism and revert the Caponeist dictatorship towards a stateless Egoist Syndicalist society where revolutionary egalitarianism and freedom are guaranteed absolutely for every individual.

Dan Seavey

Role: Admiral (Seavey joins CSA), Helmsman^note Head of State (Seavey makes pirate utopia)

Party: All-Union Party of the Organization

Ideology: Comrades of the Coast^note Syndicalism, Radical Socialism

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• Cult of Personality: Roaring Dan, with his massive ego, creates his own pirate-themed and nautically-based cult of personality around himself to rival Capone's.
• Insane Admiral: Seavey is absolutely crazy. From his raids of Lake Michigan as a pirate lord, fighting against the Black Legion, fighting in ship-to-ship combat, and leading sailors and pirates to fight against the Canadian government.
• King On His Death Bed: Subverted. Seavey is 80 years old by the time he takes control from Capone. Despite this, he's still just as sharp and passionate as he was from his youthful days, and still runs the Red Navy as a distant Helmsman, snuffing out talks of retirement.
• Red Baron: Known as 'Roaring Dan' due to his crazy and upfront personality as a pirate lord.

Paul Ricca

Role: Field Marshal, Chairman^note Head of State (Ricca coups Nitti and Caponeists)

Party: La Casa Nostra

Ideology: Red-Tinted Autocracy^note Paternal Autocracy, Neo-Feudalism^note Paternal Autocracy, Mafioso Socialism^note Paternal Autocracy, Warlordism^note Paternal Autocracy, Kleptocracy^note Paternal Autocracy (Ricca's Direction for Red-Tinted Criminal Fiefdom)

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• Appropriated Appellation: Nicknamed 'Ricca the Rat' due to being a schemer and conspirator behind closed doors.
• Dragon-in-Chief: For years, Paul Ricca has been the quiet mastermind behind Capone's criminal empire, taking on more and more responsibility behind the scenes long before King Al even had a chance to lead America.
• Still Wearing the Old Colors: Ricca discards what little remains of socialism within Caponeism, but still maintains a red façade to the rest of the socialist world to rely on their continued foolish support.

Earl J. Weiss

Role: Field Marshal, Chairman^note Head of State (Weiss wins power struggle over Ricca)

Party: La Casa Nostra

Ideology: Criminal State^note Paternal Autocracy, Kleptocracy^note Paternal Autocracy, Warlordism^note Paternal Autocracy, Authoritarian Christian Democracy^note Paternal Autocracy, Clientelism^note Paternal Autocracy (Weiss' Direction for Criminal Fiefdom)

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• Appropriated Appellation: Nicknamed 'Hymie' due to being thought of as Jewish, even though he was from a Catholic-Polish background. He still stuck with it as his nickname.
• Red Baron: Known as 'The only man Capone feared'.
• The Dreaded: Weiss is a notorious and vicious criminal. His ascension to power starts with him destroying all of Capone's influence including his statues, monuments and anything related to him. He then proceeds to purge all pro-Caponeists in the country and make all political loyalty only go to him. Finally, he strips away all Socialist influence in the country and makes it a criminalistic totalitarian nightmare.