User blog comment:Saturn120/What if Karl Marx Was Never Born?/@comment-5169980-20140515143357

Something similar to communism but with difference would still had erupt somewhere. The idea of communism is old, Gracchus Babeuf talk about social equality around the French revolution and even before him, many develop the idea of a perfect equal society but meet few success. Surely that someone else than Marx would have write a manifesto somewhere and that communist party would and may be elected due to the fact that the dream of a perfect society would still exist.

However, I bet that without the Soveit Union, there could be no communist side in the Chinese civil war, neither there would be any communist states in Asia before long, but nationalist states.