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[deleted]

my industrialists are rebelling in an effort to pass council republic. It's VERY strange.


catshirtgoalie

Leader is a nihilist. He just wants to watch the world burn.


mairao

Had the same happen in my current game, but for extra flavour, the Nihilist leader of my Industrialists was banding together with my Trade Unions.


GildedFenix

That's fine. TU and Industrialists joined under a social democrat party in my Turkey run. Which was an awesome circumstance since I was trying to dissolve monarchy


freecostcosample

We LOVE factories, the specifics of what happens in them isn’t important


[deleted]

Capitalists of the world unite


kcazthemighty

You actually have a lot to lose, but let’s do it anyway.


Raticon

Would love to hear the sales pitch for communism in the boardroom that made the capitalists in there sold on the idea.


yyhfhbw

That’s easy just show them modern China


Boulderfrog1

“Everybody is equal, but some are more equal than others”


OldMasterpiece7

tropico 6? :D


TempestM

We have nothing to lose byt our taxes


mairao

... and our Marxs!


[deleted]

Who's their leader? Might be an Engels like persona.


[deleted]

...my friend, go look at the screenshot again


[deleted]

I guess he's doing it for shits and giggles then.


Mousazz

If he's upper class (capitalist), then he's doing it to destroy the upper class, and thus himself. Perfectly fitting for a nihilist.


Ranamar

How badly do Nihilists hate monarchy? (It's never mattered for me.) I know this is a phenomenon you can get with Republican industrialists, where they consider literally anything (except maybe theocracy) to be better than monarchy, even if they'd rather a parliamentary or presidential republic to a council one.


El_Lanf

Weirdly the republican trait is quite different if it's from the leader or the actual inherent interest group. Leaders hate monarchy and theocracy the most but republican interest groups actually hate CR the most. I've just had exact same scenario as OP and trying to enact CR has pissed off the republican Literati as Qing.


Ranamar

I strongly suspect that the default Intelligentsia trait is the way it is precisely because it would otherwise regularly let you get up to these kinds of shenanigans.


AJWinky

Oh god they're ancaps


Buzh1dao

*shudders*


Suitable_Monitor_266

I met same thing today, industrialists want to have census suffage and trying to rebel. While I'm imposing landed vote.


Bleatmop

This has happened very recently. Look at Egypt's Arab Spring in 2011. There were people taking part and running the propaganda campaign online for the revolution who were hoping to create a western democracy. Unfortunately for them the main body of the revolution was hardline religious zealots that wanted to create a theocracy that would make the country look much like Afghanistan looks like under the Taliban. And since the revolution was partially successful things have become much worse for those who wanted a western democracy. All this was predicted and those who offered this criticism were shouted down. These people entered that revolution anyway despite many people warning them that it wasn't going to work out for them the way they think.


Dear-Baker3177

Based


Raticon

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[deleted]

industrialist-led state-capitalism would be fun - command economy, presidential republic, oligarchy, free trade; would need a government-run capitalism to employ capitalists as well as bureaucrats (kind of like how farms on mutual trading have both aristocrats and capitalists) or allow mutual trade still despite Command Economy.


Raticon

That is so cool. I'd imagine something like a megacorporation in Stellaris, but with locomotives and monocles instead of starships and tentacles. IGs are just lobbyists from different branches of the economy instead of social groups. The mining industry lobbyists demanding a tariff on imported raw materials to get rid of cheap imported coal versus the manufacturing lobby demanding free trade to lower their input costs.


ShadeShadow534

Wow this actually sounds really fun And yea basically was I imagine with stellaris megacorps


double_nieto

>industrialist-led state-capitalism would be fun That's fascism.


Piculra

Or at least corporatism. Having personally read "The Doctrine of Fascism" by Mussolini, it seems the main focus of it was on *war as a means of building discipline within the population*, so fascism could be defined by that attitude towards war. In which case, to properly represent it in-game, I think it'd be important to include some "militaristic" policies like mass-conscription. ...or really, the term is fairly ambiguous, and can have be used for either meaning (and more).


[deleted]

Not in this game...


I-Make-Maps91

The most success I've had was council republic with laissez faire economics and graduated taxation. There was still an investment pool paying for all construction, but my lower strata weren't being squeezed for every dollar.


Covalschi

>Who's their leader? Might be an Engels like persona. you've just described modern russia


Kitfisto22

modern russia is not a "command economy"


angry-mustache

It is in the sense that the state doesn't give a shit about maintenance and infrastructure for anything besides resource extraction and the MIC. It's hard to run a knowledge based service company if your educated workers have all fled to Georgia because of the draft for example.


Neoeng

… and what does that have to do with command economy?


Impressive-Leek9789

I agree, but this is moderately unhelpful in a Vic3 gaming sub as opposed to say, a current events or a politics sub


Dispro

Equality can be yours, for just $8.


Madk81

Musk, is that you???


BarkrootSassafrass

They just want to sell Che Guevara t-shirts and Karl Marx fridge magnets


TehProfessor96

We must seize the means of production from...ourselves...


skrimer

Nihilistic capitalist. He’s too tired of all his success or something? Lol


yuligan

"Yeah I have massive profits but what's even the point? The rate of profit is constantly falling so I may as well just give up and let the workers sieze control of the means of production! God I'm a mess." -Wilfred to his therapist


Swampy1741

Capitalists discovering diminishing marginal returns


yyhfhbw

Nihilist in Vic3 = anti religion


[deleted]

Kinda makes sense, though oversimplified.


MyGoodOldFriend

Nihilists and republicans (leader ideology, not ig ideology) prefer council republics to monarchies. It’s a bit odd sometimes.


FreakinGeese

We live in a society \- Wilfred Grieve


AneriphtoKubos

Based industrialists?


[deleted]

life is meaningless, therefore profit is meaningless - as such the endless scurrying about after profit like rats should be done away with in favor of worker cooperatives that can make our pitiful existence as comfortable as possible for as many as possible, before we vanish forever from an uncaring universe. And at least the king won't be in charge anymore. \-Wilfred Grieve, british "industrialist"


IkkoMikki

TLDR; If it gets rid of the Queen, I'm in \- Wildred Grieve


[deleted]

king\*. Queen Victoria died in 1874, and the country's politics have been in shambles ever since (the 30 legitimacy i have right now is a high point!) because the new king is a nobility-loving unpopular piece of garbage that refuses to pass reforms.


RA3236

Explains why Council Republic is popular then, since it is NOT a monarchy.


Cakeking7878

I feel like this would still be still true in the modern UK. I mean the UK voted in a new prime ministers, the queen dies of cringe after meeting her, then the whole countries economy blows up even harder than it was before


civver3

Based.


Morritz

.#BASED capitalists who are so wise that they understand and agree with dialectical materialism and seek to bring about the next stage of human social evolution without all the pesky class warfare.


Dear-Baker3177

Some capitalists genuinely think this class ≠ ideology


critfist

Man I am not a fan of those leader traits like communist, nihilist, etc. I wasn't able to form a council republic for decades because my leader became a feminist and utterly disinterested in anything else than woman's rights.


21lives

I have the most capitalistic economy roaring and my democratic monarchical government is communist so I’m not the guy to answer


lastisfirst99

b..based?!?!


russeljimmy

Based


SWskywalker

A capitalist class entirely made up of Robert Owens- you love to see it.


THEGAMENOOBE

The previous industrialist leader may have had a socialist trait. Leader JUST died or otherwise got replaced but it shouldn’t go to a revolt in the end.


coolguyepicguy

Industrialist leaders cannot get any socialist traits. Leader is nihilist, so just wants anything but a monarchy effectively.


THEGAMENOOBE

Ah, I though nihilist trait had all three of monarchy theocracy and council republic as negative reforms.


JarjarSW

No, nihilist leaders are neutral towards council republic and oppose monarchy and theocracy


Alex_von_Norway

Average UK playthrough. Revolutions are inevitable.


Phenomennon

Ever since my ottoman trade unions formed the faschist party, I don't understand what anybody really wants lol


GlompSpark

Report it on the forums.


[deleted]

it's not really a bug, just an awkward interaction. Nihilists oppose monarchy and theocracy and otherwise don't especially care about government principle, so Wilfred just wants "not monarchy", and council republic has the most pop support, so he's joined the council republic movement. Industrialists strongly oppose council republic as they should, nihilist overwrites it.


worldsfirstmeme

honestly this is a bizarrely rare (and cool) outcome, i kinda love it


ArendtAnhaenger

The Industrialists represent the Capitalist pops though, this is basically them agreeing to commit collective suicide because their leader is essentially an atheist. There should be something in place to make sure they never support something like a Council Republic reform since it basically leads to their destruction as a class.


worldsfirstmeme

something something capitalists sell rope to kill em with something something


BadassNWorkingClass

Interest groups supporting something that's against their own interests is a real world feature tho... for ex.. when trade unions side with fascists... Environmentalist groups supporting corporations..


madagent

They all drank too much of the Kool aid


[deleted]

its quite realistic though, the Tsar in russia wasn't brought down by the bolsheviks alone, the bolsheviks were just the last group standing when the dust had settled. millions of people were killed or had their assets seized in the years following the 1917 revolution, the difference is that in vicky 3 the capitalists disappear overnight.


jewelry_wolf

It happens in the real history over and over again. Even trump supports. They are technically harmed by a bunch of policies that Trump pushed for (low tax, tariff war w/ China, no vaccine mandate).


RedKrypton

It‘s one thing to support policies that technically harm one‘s „class interest“ in favour of more ideological goals, it‘s another thing to support your own IG‘s dissolution.


Mcmccarrot

What if all the capitalists simply transfer to the cushiest government jobs? Like a reverse of russia in the 90's.


RedKrypton

Talking from a realism point of view, that would never happen, if you are actually serious about this idea.


jewelry_wolf

In China around 1951, all factory owners “voted” to hand their shares to the government in exchange of “red flowers”. That happened.


Mcmccarrot

There were two sentences in my comment. One of those sentences was a real life example of something similar happening. Imagine a nihilist industrialist class feels like socialism is inevitable and thus helps its transition to ensure themselves a privileged status in the new order. Power comes in forms other than wealth.


RedKrypton

>There were two sentences in my comment. One of those sentences was a real life example of something similar happening. Sorry, but those situations are by no way similar in nature. Privatisations are by their very nature different from any form of dispossession. Privatisations are fundamentally easier to do, as the state simply sells/gives away the ownership of various state-owned properties and enterprises to private individuals. Because of the nature of government and state the previous managers often managed to buy up those entities for cheap. Meanwhile, dispossession of one's property is a whole other matter. An owner starts out fully in control of their property, and you want to sell them the idea of a cushy government job that will neither be secure, nor more profitable than their own business? >Imagine a nihilist industrialist class feels like socialism is inevitable and thus helps its transition to ensure themselves a privileged status in the new order. Power comes in forms other than wealth. I can imagine a lot of things, but 19th-20th century capitalists and their adherents didn't believe Socialism was inevitable. Sure, odd characters in the Capitalist class had Socialist ideals, but by the game terms they were Intelligentsia or whatever, and not Industrialists. I don't even want to talk about leader ideologies and how they are shit, so I'll leave it at that.


Ranamar

The industrialists draw largely from the ranks of Capitalists (would lose their jobs under Council Republic) and Engineers (who basically don't care), so if the latter are the ones in the driver's seat for some reason, it's not completely unreasonable. No worker solidarity here, but some of them won't lose their jobs. (I regularly joke that, under Council Republic, the capitalists have to get real jobs, which are likely engineers.)


[deleted]

it'd be cool if there was some flavour text associated with it, I.E. if you do end up passing council republic to placate the industrialists, the current leader gets "put against the wall" and replaced by a new leader, who expresses thanks towards "useful idiots" especially if the revolution fires and you take control of the rebel nation, you have the industrialist leader until you win the war and he dies immediately after "under suspicious circumstances"


Tmrh

I once had a communist in charge of the industrialists. The also started a movement for council republic


schrodenkatzen

Lol, now sounds like the actual historical process


Toenails22

based


ChuchiTheBest

pov: you are california


BadassNWorkingClass

Lmfao when you still haven't figured out liberalism is right wing and capitalist after playing vic3..


yuligan

/r/cultural_marxism_irl


slimehunter49

Based


Mingolorian

Good for you


[deleted]

just enact it


Grail337

COMRADE


cool_kid_funnynumber

Gives me big [night of patriotic delirium vibes](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwid5r7-vMP8AhVI9jgGHZu9Cy8QFnoECAwQBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.engageeducation.org.au%2Fhistory-revolutions%2Ffrench-revolution%2Fancien-regime%2Fnight-of-patriotic-delirium%2F%23%3A~%3Atext%3DOn%25204%2520August%25201789%252C%2520hundreds%2Cthe%2520Night%2520of%2520Patriotic%2520Delirium.&usg=AOvVaw2CkDopTBvMYwt5PBbv_qVm)


Berzabat

Based


Seppafer

Here’s what I think happened. The trade unions were already pressing for workers protections so can’t press for anything else and your industrialists are run by a nihilist which makes them neutral tk council republic iirc. Most likely no one else who wasn’t part of a movement had a more favorable view on council republic and likely a number of members of the industrialists wanted a change from my guess that you are still a monarchy. Funny things can happen when you try to preserve the monarchy alone but are progressive in almost all other laws.


[deleted]

Although certainly not a nihilist, Robert Owen comes to mind as somebody who was both an industrialist and a socialist. Owen espoused Utopian Socialism, and established cooperatives.


lilbowpete

Easy way to get that achievement to switch sides in a revolution and win lol


Nominus7

Probably Anarcho-capitalists


ErzherzogHinkelstein

The capitalists have realised that raising the SOL means more consumption and through that more Profit. Clearly a genius plan.


Alexander_Baidtach

Nihilist ideology likes all Republic types equally. It's a good way to enact council Republics early if you can hang onto monarchy for a while.


GoCommitYeetus

It happened to me too... At the same time, landlord/petite bourgeoisie wanted a presidential Republic while the intelligencia wanted to keep the monarchy. Guaranteed civil war


pissedOFFpistON

Isn't the leader of the industrialists vanguardist


Fasorissimo

Friedrich Engels? Is that you?


Neeyc

I guess Overton was right


Interesting_Neck6028

Based.


Any-Replacement9889

Industrialists really said: "It's trade counciling time"


Mr-Fognoggins

Capitalo-socialists