Lily Weiss

Lily Weiss is from Leeds and graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in health science. She was my classmate in undergraduate and graduate studies. We actively participated in the workers' movement when we were in school. After the "glorious peace" in 1921, the British economy collapsed, and the working class made great sacrifices but gained nothing. The victory of the French workers' revolution also inspired the British proletariat, intellectuals, and even the petty bourgeoisie. By 1925, everyone united, overthrew the bourgeois government, and expelled the royal family to Canada. A new Britain was established: the British Syndicalist People's Republic. Lily Weiss and I were both actively involved in this revolution. It was 1930, and Britain, France and Northern Italy had become the world of syndicalism, but the proletarian revolution in Russia had failed. Our left-wing regime tolerated all ideas, allowing anarchism, utopian socialism, moral philosophy, liberalism and humanism to develop fully. But this also brought some obstacles to our governance. Another problem we faced was corruption: some speculators mixed into the revolutionary ranks and created corruption and chaos. In addition, some high-ranking members of the revolutionary movement began to corrupt. These were not what we wanted to see, especially since the Germans were still eyeing the continent. Back in 1919, Rosa Luxemburg and Liebknecht founded the Syndicalist International in Paris. Today, despite the death of its founders, the organization has spread all over the world. I joined the organization (which we called in the oriental Cambodian language anka), but Lily Weiss was not happy about it. She would rather debate feminism and analytical philosophy in the halls of Cambridge University than write agitational speeches for political movements. Of course, she was not a lazy talker. She was present from the revolutionary front to the construction of socialist health care. She simply hated the bureaucratic style within anka and thought it was not in line with revolutionary ideals. My job is a doctor, and Lily Weiss is engaged in health management. But our identities have led us to be regarded as class enemies by some radicals. I have to rely on anka to ensure my safety, which is why I chose to join them. Lily Weiss's anarchist advocacy also seems to bring her danger. Despite this, she still insists on supporting an anarchist community experiment in London. I respect her choice, but I think this experiment is hopeless. Lily Weiss's anarchist thought comes from Bakunin, but it also combines Nietzsche's individualism and Feuerbach's materialist theory. Based on this, she opposed the empty talk of the Young Hegelians, sympathized with the Marxists, and supported Rosa Luxemburg's democratic socialist ideals. She deliberately drew a line between Leninism and Trotskyism (of course, not completely negating it, but critically inheriting it), believing that the former would lead to despotism and disrespect for the individuals of the proletariat, while the latter was too idealistic and not executable in the revolution. She paid close attention to the anti-imperialist struggle of the colonial people and believed that their national liberation was also class liberation, a countermeasure to the "center-periphery" exploitation structure of capitalism. She also supported women's liberation, and worked with other feminists to expose the nature of patriarchy and capitalism jointly oppressing the weak and promoting each other. Some extreme leftists attacked her, while the establishment in the proletarian revolutionary government despised her anarchist background. Her feminist views were not particularly radical, but this also made her arouse the dissatisfaction of both gender conservatives and more radical feminists. The People's Republic of British Syndicalism is still in danger: Canadian royalists once landed in Scotland, but we repelled them. We helped Ireland win independence, but they chose the path of capitalist development. Britain has lost its western barrier, and geopolitics has become more dangerous. Lilyvis is more interested in the proletarian revolution in Northern Europe, but I think we should first help the Syndicalist Republic in Northern Italy to control the entire country - only in this way can the Imperial Pact not extend its claws to the Apennine Peninsula. The corruption problem at the top of the syndicalist government began to ferment, and the populists and extremists were preparing to use this incident to realize their conspiracy. Lily Weiss and I were just small leaders of the revolutionary movement. Even if we saw the situation clearly, we were helpless...

Here is a brief introduction to Kaiserreich's worldview: In KR's alternate history timeline, the major events of the 1910s all went the other way, such as the Allies winning World War I in 1917. China's warlords fought each other and the Qing Dynasty was successfully restored. The socialist revolutions in Britain and France, not Russia, succeeded. The left-wing Kuomintang led by Wang Jingwei and Soong Ching Ling implemented socialism. This led to a huge change in the world's political landscape, affecting almost all countries and regions. Germany won World War I and became a global power, but it also had internal contradictions and was about to slide into the abyss of economic crisis. World War II was already brewing. In the setting of KR, the German Empire is the main power in the world, with many vassal states in Eastern Europe, and two large colonies in German Central Africa and German East Asia, which belong to the same faction "Imperial Pact". Another major ally, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, successfully survived outside the German sphere of influence. After the end of World War I, socialist revolutions overthrew the governments of Britain, France, and northern Italy. These countries adopted syndicalism as their ideology and formed the "Third International" in the KR world, while the original governments went into exile abroad. The camp of these exiled governments was the original "Allied Powers". In addition, many countries experienced internal turmoil after the war. Civil wars broke out in Argentina, the United States, Spain and other countries, and independence movements broke out in many colonies and dependencies. KR not only modifies the territorial boundaries and international relations in reality, but also changes the political ideology in reality, adding many unique ideologies that combine the ideals of multiple countries into one. KR's ideology does not include traditional communism and fascism, but replaces them with a completely new political palette. For example, "totalitarianism" is an ideology similar to Stalinism, which attracts historical figures who would have been considered fascists; syndicalism replaces the original communism.