Games have long been seen as a potentially one of the most effective avenues for getting people to truly understand capital. Roleplaying as capitalists to understand what's happening to you/pivotal points in history. Wehrlegig games' John Company 2nd edition and Pax Pamir 2nd edition are phenomenal contemporary examples. Guy Debord's The Game of War. I know its a tired talking point by now, but even Original Monopoly. IDK. I think it's a thing more leftists could care to think about since we also talk about agitprop and education.
CK2 was instrumental in my understanding of Marxist material view of history as a series of class struggles dominated by people pursuing their rational interests at any given point in time. It removed the fluff and veneer of Feudalism and monarchy, and showed how a kingdom is nothing more than a rich guy with a private army, mostly interested in pursuing control of more resources, and maybe other things, but mostly that (by the nature of being a Lord to begin with.)
And a Stellaris mod was instrumental in me realizing what Socialism actually was: a civic for Socialism described as "The means of production are owned and controlled by the people who use them. If you don't use it, you can't profit from it."
Something that simple broke through decades of "socialism is when the government does stuff."
Kaiserreich helped a lot too. A shit ton actually. Comparing the focus trees for Labor/Socialist/Communist parties versus the focus trees for Liberal parties is quite the eye opener.
And a Stellaris mod was instrumental in me realizing what Socialism actually was: a civic for Socialism described as “The means of production are owned and controlled by the people who use them. If you don’t use it, you can’t profit from it.”
It makes it especially pathetic how the vanilla commie civic, Shared Burdens, was basically just "Government distributes everything to everyone equally".
Kaiserreich helped a lot too. A shit ton actually. Comparing the focus trees for Labor/Socialist/Communist parties versus the focus trees for Liberal parties is quite the eye opener.
Something that's been an educating experience is taking a look at the Kaiserreich fanbase. There are so many "democracy-loving" shitlibs who unironically stan the Entente and Reichspakt, two god awful colonial blocs, over even wholesome 100 big chungus libertarian socialist states (which are objectively the most democratic countries at the start) without the "icky" things assorted with gommulism. It really opens my eyes as to the pure ideology distilled into Westoid minds, given that Apartheid South Africa, Mittelafrika, and National France (ran by a Nazi-collaborating sack of shit) aren't "deal breakers" for them but states that abolish or even just severely limit private property are.
Also, out of any of the sides of the American Civil War, only the socialists destroy racial segregation in its entirety. Really makes you think.
Games have long been seen as a potentially one of the most effective avenues for getting people to truly understand capital. Roleplaying as capitalists to understand what's happening to you/pivotal points in history. Wehrlegig games' John Company 2nd edition and Pax Pamir 2nd edition are phenomenal contemporary examples. Guy Debord's The Game of War. I know its a tired talking point by now, but even Original Monopoly. IDK. I think it's a thing more leftists could care to think about since we also talk about agitprop and education.
CK2 was instrumental in my understanding of Marxist material view of history as a series of class struggles dominated by people pursuing their rational interests at any given point in time. It removed the fluff and veneer of Feudalism and monarchy, and showed how a kingdom is nothing more than a rich guy with a private army, mostly interested in pursuing control of more resources, and maybe other things, but mostly that (by the nature of being a Lord to begin with.)
And a Stellaris mod was instrumental in me realizing what Socialism actually was: a civic for Socialism described as "The means of production are owned and controlled by the people who use them. If you don't use it, you can't profit from it."
Something that simple broke through decades of "socialism is when the government does stuff."
Kaiserreich helped a lot too. A shit ton actually. Comparing the focus trees for Labor/Socialist/Communist parties versus the focus trees for Liberal parties is quite the eye opener.
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It makes it especially pathetic how the vanilla commie civic, Shared Burdens, was basically just "Government distributes everything to everyone equally".
Something that's been an educating experience is taking a look at the Kaiserreich fanbase. There are so many "democracy-loving" shitlibs who unironically stan the Entente and Reichspakt, two god awful colonial blocs, over even wholesome 100 big chungus libertarian socialist states (which are objectively the most democratic countries at the start) without the "icky" things assorted with gommulism. It really opens my eyes as to the pure ideology distilled into Westoid minds, given that Apartheid South Africa, Mittelafrika, and National France (ran by a Nazi-collaborating sack of shit) aren't "deal breakers" for them but states that abolish or even just severely limit private property are.
Also, out of any of the sides of the American Civil War, only the socialists destroy racial segregation in its entirety. Really makes you think.
It really, really does. :curious-marx:
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