Video is by a friend of mine, takes a dive into the music of Civ from a critical leftist perspective, specifically how it reinforces the games' Eurocentric view of history.

  • ComradeRat [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Tbf, it also doesn't villainize communism, at least before Civ 5. Civ 4's descriptions of Mao and Stalin are really generous, even from a left perspective, and the description of communism actually started me on the path towards radicalisation.

    • ThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]
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      4 years ago

      That’s cool, I didn’t know that. Civ V was the first game I played, and then I just got Civ 6 last year. I don’t think Civ V has any communist leaders, most of the leaders are pre-Victorian except for a few, from what I remember. The only mention of communism really is when you pick an ideology, and I don’t think they went into any of the ideologies‘ histories or theory.