Just wanted to take a moment to say that despite Paradox Brain and most of their game's fans being insane armchair reactionary generals, the developers at the Paradox Studios are not shy about admitting what makes their titles "work" is using a Marxist HistMat analysis to translate conditions and events into game mechanics. This is not to say they are necessarily principled Marxists, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYzxcf_ZL_g
It was an interesting talk though, thanks for linking it. It's just so telling about the depths of anticommunist indoctrination that a lib can't even bring up an economist/philosopher who died decades before the first death recorded by the Black Book without going so far out of their way to disavow everything he's associated with.
Just wanted to take a moment to say that despite Paradox Brain and most of their game's fans being insane armchair reactionary generals, the developers at the Paradox Studios are not shy about admitting what makes their titles "work" is using a Marxist HistMat analysis to translate conditions and events into game mechanics. This is not to say they are necessarily principled Marxists, of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYzxcf_ZL_g
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Lol perhaps "Not shy" was an imprecise way to put it, maybe "may be a bit sheepish about it, yet still admit"
It was an interesting talk though, thanks for linking it. It's just so telling about the depths of anticommunist indoctrination that a lib can't even bring up an economist/philosopher who died decades before the first death recorded by the Black Book without going so far out of their way to disavow everything he's associated with.