Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
Geopolitics doesn't really has anything to do with it, Marx thought that socialism in a society was inavitable after a hungry society.
I don't mean Marx's views and geopolitics. I mean ideology adopted at a state level often influences a course the country takes, like the ideological background for Crusades. Or political considerations may result in adopting some ideology, like converting Kievan Rus to Christianity in 988.