Realistic Socialism
I felt that there were some inconsistencies between Paradox’s interpretation of Vanguardism and other Socialist ideologies and their real life counterparts in Marxism-Leninism (ML) and other tendencies. Here are the changes and my explanations for the change:
### Vanguardist Ideology:
– Replaced Distribution of Power preference with Free Speech and Internal Security preferences (see in pics)
I disagree that ML governments prefer Autocracy & Oligarchy. For instance, the PRC and the USSR both have/had Universal Suffrage and voting systems, though you cannot/could not vote for non-party candidates and utilize(d) heavy use of censorship and internal security organizations, hence the preference changes to focus more on control of citizen beliefs, rather than simply eliminating voting.
– Altered preferences of Trade Policy
ML groups traditionally prefer some form of autarky and national self-sufficiency to prevent reliance on foreign economies, as much as is possible. However, if a country is unable to produce certain needed resources, trade is acceptable generally with other worker-run nations if possible.
### Proletarian Ideology:
– Added preferences for colonization to reflect an anti-imperialist nature.
### Command Economy:
– Bureaucrats’ dividends are now taxed 100% to represent the state receiving all profits for government owned businesses. Frankly I don’t understand why Paradox didn’t have this implemented to begin with.
– Added an increase to Bureaucracy Population Cost to reflect the increased need for management over the economy. May increase due to this economic system being a tad OP now.
– Removed the increased Taxation Capacity as I felt that this was made redundant due to the above change.
Compatibility: This mod should be compatible with most mods as I added my own files.
### Please let me know if you have any other ideas for changes!
