[Discussion] We Can Win Gamers Over to Socialism (jacobin.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml to c/games@lemmygrad.ml

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Okay, so I'm not sure if this is the place to post this, of it should be on Freechat or some other place, but being a gamer who has lately been somewhat conflicted between the need to

touch grass

As alluded to by the guys at TheDeprogram Podcast on their episode titled Touch Grass

, which ironically means just have fun playing videogames, and not just focusing on being a socialist 24/7 and all the things one is missing by not reading enough theory, or not organizing, or not working, or blablablablabla...

But I'd always love to see some sort of marxist analysis of programming, and software, and ofc...videogames! And so this is just an article by Jacobin Magazine, which summarizes the contents of the book

(which I've not read)

But looks intresting given what the article says

Marx at the Arcade.

And I thought it would be the perfect thing to share here in Lemmygrad. Hope I'm not mistaken posting this here.

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[-] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

semi-related but Marx was basically a gamer himself judging by his chess habits

personally I think he would've loved Victoria 3

[-] BassedWarrior@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hahahahaha, that sounds about right.

I didn't know about his affinity for chess. Even better

Edit: So...I bought the book, and...right there...it says something very similar.

We know, of course, that Marx had nothing to say of videogames, given they did not exist at the time (though he was a chess player, and there is even a record of a game he played after he finished writing Capital).

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