Game: Krasnacht, a mod for Hearts of Iron 4
Post title: New Ideology idea: Situationism. Born out of the ashes of the Second Weltkrieg, this semi-anarchist movement of avant-garde artists believes in socialist art as the only road to victory against the Bourgeois & Reactionary nations known as "The Spectacle"
The Situationist International was disbanded in '72 after a tragic event where an opponent called them "the shituationist international".
Please do not shit on the arsonists, they're doing good work.
Organizing a general strike to overthrow the bourgeoisie by shitting on a piece of canvas and writing subversive poetry about noncing french teenagers
I'm being extremely facetious, but limiting your activism to purely theoretical approaches, or god forbid, purely academical circlejerkery, is not going to get The Masses™ on your side, least of all because not all of them deal with academia and intellectuals. I've never been a huge fan of the French postmodern "left" intellectuals, mostly because the have next to nothing to show for their activism and theory in terms of concrete achievements. Performative support of the Algerian peoples and a distaste of the bourgeoisie should've been the absolute bare minimum.
I consider myself thoroughly owned, and shall alter the opening comment to suit
Performative support of the Algerian peoples and a distaste of the bourgeoisie
Wait that sounds familiar. Sounds American.
Debord specifically made very consistent references to the fact that praxis is really all that matters and the spectacle that arises from societal power structures needs to be ignored and not allowed to influence praxis.
He was also just a huge nerd.
There is totally a disconnect that wasn't there with previous generations. I've noticed it a lot with music that kids don't know who some INCREDIBLY mainstream artists were, I think there were people here who didn't know who Barry White was for example. I'm guessing radio not really being a thing anymore played a big part there
well the situationists were a thing irl and honestly this community probably has a lot more in common with the Situationist Internationale than most would care to admit. I don't know too much about them but I know they liked to use satire and sarcasm to pick apart capitalist society. They also liked to drink heavily because they knew too many grim truths lol
Honestly sounds like the forerunners to posters. People who get obsessed with the culture/individual expression/aesthetic of radicalism and confuse it for actual radicalism or accomplishing political goals. Capitalism is totally fine with people playing radical in art and media. It even makes money off it. Bowie? Dude made record companies millions/billions. Lynch? Part of the Hollywood canon now. Capital is threatened by none of it.
What you're saying is actually closer to the Situationist critique of capital being able to recuperate all symbolic opposition to it, trapping everyone in a hall of mirrors without any political effects. There's a reason they didn't go into pop culture and instead just made avant-garde films, split from each other and drank a lot
I get that at one point these people really were avant-garde, but has there been any development on those ideas since then? I would argue that quite a few of those people are definitely part of pop culture even if they weren't 50-60 years ago. Doesn't that kind of prove that even the avant-garde gets swallowed by capital or do they think you must always move towards the boundaries and never let yourself get consumed?
Of course it's a goddamn hoi4 alt-history mod. There are way too many of those in existence. There's only like 3 that are worth playing, the rest are just riding off the success of Kaiserreich
There’s only like 3 that are worth playing
Kaiserreich, The New Order, and Equestria At War.
I was gonna say Old World Blues instead of Equestria at War, because idk if My Little Pony war simulator mods can really be considered alt-history. I hear it's well made though 🤷♀️
Hey, there are plenty worth playing!
...they're just still in development and on indefinite release dates.
Debord shits on anarchism and Marxism Leninism equally. His whole theory of spectacle seems to be just the analysis of propaganda and it's evolution in both capitalist and socialist states, with the final form taking a hybrid state of diffuse (advertising everywhere) and concentrated (cults of personality) where everyone is leading their own cult of personality. Which is basically the internet.
He calls for praxis that rejects the system of integrated spectacle and returns to something else, which gives me 19th century utopian socialist vibes when they wanted to return to a "friendly feudalism".
Also read Comments on Society of the Spectacle, it's written more like a regular book.
Pretty sure this isn't even canon, just a post made on the subreddit. Even then, Krasnacht is one of the few HoI4 mods that isn't shitlib (and represents leftist ideologies somewhat well), so I'll give it a pass.
Is now a good time to point out that most of these people are dead?
I unironically love Hoi4 alt history mods because they are absolutely fucking stupid and clearly made by politically illiterate people, and that just adds to the fun factor for me
There was some mod where commie Goebbels walked into a communist meeting and went "Yo what if we had communism, but with ALL the classes?" and everyone was immediately converted into Strasserists. He was also the leader of a faction that was "Bolshevik" translated into German, so it just means "Majority'". It's so fucking good lmfao
sounds like Red Flood, is that Red Flood?
It has France turn the Avant-Garde art movement into a literally "crazy" political ideology, lead by a schizophrenic.
me i just want a modern day hoi4 mod with tons of focus trees so i can have maduro invade the usa
They have that too, except it's still made by politically illiterate libs who think that if CPUSA came to power it would abolish the first and second amendments.
Well actually I can see that since the old CP became a DNC tailgaters party
There's Millennium Dawn which can be kinda good. But if MD isn't your thing, there are some forks of it before the merge with Modern Day 4. One is called Novus Vexillium or something like that. Alternatively, the Cold War: Iron Curtain mod is really good. Not modern day obviously but I think there are some start dates in the 70's.
Millennium Dawn is really boring though. It tries to simulate economics in a war game which doesn't really go anywhere. There's a bunch of really long focuses for very little benefit. Also the actual warfare is pretty bad, as factions don't form cohesively and the AI can't handle all the added equipment. Speaking of which, all the added equipment and unit types don't make the game better, it just means you have 30 hoops to jump through to deploy a unit
Yeah, feels like some serious wasted potential unfortunately. I've tried to play an ascendant China trying to overtake the US but its just too boring to get very far. I just spend all the time building factories and doing focuses. It would probably work better in Victoria, hopefully a modern day mod gets developed for Vic 3.
I just like how that mod turns Zyuganov into the most based person to ever exist lmao
I think it might have been Kaiserredux or some shit
I have yet to play Red Flood but from what I've heard it sounds very stupid, just my kind of thing
"what if goku and spiderman fou-"
goku
"alright that's an easy one, but what if goku and SUPERman f-"
goku
"ok ok but what if goku and-"
goku goku goku
"you didn't let me finish"
alright, finish
"goku and sailor moon"
...shit. sailor moon.
Has anyone ever tried just like stabbing or shooting Goku? All I can remember is hand to hand fighting and vague energy beams.
yeah they got a lot of the swords/guns out of the way in Dragon Ball with Kid Goku fighting the Red Ribbon Army.
Is he bullet and sword proof? What are the stakes in any of this?
hoo boy, time for a new wave of "leftists" who base their ideology off of a game
At least it's preferable to when people based their ideology on Monty Python films.
