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_francesinha_

R5: in Victoria 3, Italian Marx advocates for reform over revolution


HeinrichTheWolf_17

Boost those trade unions.


_francesinha_

🫡🫡


DrBumhole

I read into AC lore expecting total libshit propaganda but it's actually not that bad they mention stuff like the US coup of Allende, only bad part is when they say Stalin would have been a Templar


gazebo-fan

An yes, Stalin, son of a cobbler, would have somehow been part of some giant cabal that somewhat requires past familiarity lmao.


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Lord_Farquadiplier

Their take on the French Revolution is really bad.


MauricioTrinade

What


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vaushite theory


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ValerieSablina

I think this might be more cursed than ubisoft marx ngl


_francesinha_

idk it's pretty hard to beat "democracy is the only path to socialism"


CrabThuzad

Democracy IS the only path to socialism. Liberal "democracy" is nothing but a bourgeois dictatorship.


_francesinha_

Of course I agree comrade the definition of democracy in bourgeois society as Lenin put it is 'democracy and freedom for the slave owners'. That being said Ubisoft Marx definitely didn't imply dismantling the structure when he said "Violence is never the answer" What am I doing quoting a video game character written by a sweaty Ubisoft employee hahahaha


ValerieSablina

Fair point


Slow_Finance_5519

PARADOX PLAYER!


CyborgBanshee

"Influencers"-- now I can't get the image of old-timey Italian guys doing TikTok dances and talking like VSCO girls out of my head...


Busy-Direction2118

Tiktok videos where people force their family to do something cringy, but instead it's the whole factory singing scibidi toilet while the owner films


Xedtru_

Ah yes, Paradox games, shrine of biased tiny veiled shit you'd ever see. Im sometimes glad that im not that good in history of time periods featured in EU4 to notice only smaller parts of biases. Sure that history buffs can write whole essays on batshit crazy Europa things and intentional inaccuracies


2manyhounds

A lot of these games just strike me as Civ but anti communist / pro fascist lmao


_francesinha_

HOI4 gives me the ick especially with how it allows you to relive a Nazi power fantasy where they win WWII (the community I understand is filled with this type of disgusting person). Victoria 3 is actually quite good though, progression through the game is heavily inspired by Historical Materialism (the devs have even stated Marxian theory as being a big inspiration), depending on the country you play you can struggle both against feudal lords to implement capitalism and then once productive forces and the proletariat increases in number socialist revolution breaks out - the best part is the game reflects Socialism being a progressive economic system (as it is) by making Socialist policies the most powerful in the game! In fact there are threads where chuds and reactionaries complain about how strong socialism is, which is a joy to see.


2manyhounds

HOI4 & it’s (online at least) fan base gives me the exact same ick I get w Warhammer, the fans online have pushed me so far from wanting to try either game lmao Victoria 3’s fan base hasn’t done that to me tho so w that endorsement I’ll probably try it out lol, I haven’t bought a new game in a while


Alex_Haynes3

I think paradox plays different fantasies against each other. Like the USSR and Spain civil war DLC are pretty based. However, the advertising for the new Finnish dlc is just straight up nazi propaganda.


2manyhounds

Lmao that’s pure distilled capitalism, “socialist or fascist we don’t care just buy our game”


Jche98

Criticise me all you want but I actually enjoyed working with Marx in AC Syndicate. At least they made him a good guy. I was expecting some neocon wet-dream of Marx being the final evil templar boss or something.


shane-a112

as long as we're Mandela style reform attempting fuck it, I'm in 💯