Decelerationist

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of course, like anybody else would, the first thing i did upon getting my time machine was go back in time and kill hitler when he was just a child. but when i came back a cursory google search revealed that there was some other charismatic guy called jan krupp who staged a coup and took control of germany leading to ww2. so naturally i went back in time and killed him before he could grow up and commit genocide. but i soon discovered that he'd been replaced by another guy. so i continued on this path of killing and tbh i'm not sure how many german babies i've killed at this point and it's a little hard to find old german newspaper clippings from the ww2 period anymore because they underwent a population collapse around the turn of the 20th century. best i can tell it's this weird german serial killer they called "jack-of-the-cradle" who kept killing newborns. but googling "world war 2" doesn't come up with any results so really i think all i need to do is stop this jack guy and then that'll be mission accomplished

Around the time you had thinned out the ranks of the Freikorps you would hit a turning point where a successful socialist revolution would take place. Maybe in the aftermath of WWI as in our timeline, maybe even during the war, and thus suspending Germany’s participation in the war. From there the speculation gets really interesting. Would Liebknecht have become the leader of socialist Germany? What would his relationship with Lenin have been, given their significantly different views on Marxism? Would international socialism have been given a real shot? How would the other European powers have reacted to this unprecedented political realignment?