Edit - Lotta video game apologists in this thread. Look past your capitalist dependency on causing violence to other people/animals, and recognize what you're doing. Stop Video Games.

Video Games are a media (superstructure) that reflect the economic base we live in. It is part of the cultural hegemony we live under, that the state uses to justify itself and capitalism.

Violence is an inherent part of this ideological propaganda apparatus (along with patriarchy, racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, anti-communism, capitalist normalization etc.)

All media influences the people that receive it. It is "pure liberalism" to believe it does not. If you're a Marxist, you must stand against video games under capitalism.

  • dead [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    So video games reflect our reality, correct. That would mean video games don't cause violence.

    Getting mad at video games for being a reflection of capitalism would be like if I got mad at mirrors for making me ugly. The mirror isn't making me ugly, it is just reflecting what is reality. Changing the mirror won't change the way I look. We have to change what is being reflected, not the reflective surface.

    edit: I rephrased the analogy.