User blog comment:Saturn120/What if Karl Marx Was Never Born?/@comment-32656-20140512075716/@comment-4621372-20140512205948

The Russian empire might have collapsed after WWI. Without Marx, the revolution would likely be even more divided. Always a possibility that you'd get a Korea situation; one anti-communist and one communist state. Not very likely, but a possibility.

Which might actually cause Germany to side WITH the Allies after WWI, against the communist menace.

If Marx wasn't born, then butterfly effect kicks in; Hitler was born after Marx and wouldn't be born ATL; the result might be a military dictatorship in Germany, or a communist one; but after the beat down they'd recieve in the ATL WWI, which might be worse (the non-Leninist Russian rebels continued the war with Germany OTL and might ATL), democracy isn't going anywhere there. Doubt Fascism would either, though.