User blog comment:Saturn120/What if Karl Marx Was Never Born?/@comment-32656-20140512075716/@comment-32656-20140514094446

Big difference between radicals and communists. You get radicals from everything.

The odds of a sperm doing that are a lot better than you think. So many factors dictate which one gets there, and they are things that realistically, don't change much, if at all. Same applies even for gender.

And, as noted, communism, or the lack thereof, would change little until the 20th century.

Fascism really wasn't, actually. Opposed to socialism, if anything. In Spain, it was right-wing nationalists, who aligned with fascists. There is, in fact, a difference.