Hm, these “Foundation of Economic Education” folks don’t sound too bad…
The Foundation for Economic Education is listed as a partner organization of the Charles Koch Institute.[3]
Lol
To sum up the vid:
It’s not actually communism, it’s democratic participation in a cooperative, classless society with the goal of meeting each other’s needs and contributing to the greater whole!
:engels-wut:
It’s also not new! Early societies have done this and certain groups of people do it today!
:marx-hi:
I suppose the response to these kinds of bad faith arguments is “Cool, maybe it’s not communism. So why are we not choosing this over Capitalism then?”
(Admittedly, I haven’t watched the show so maybe he is right and Jackson is not really a Communist society, just not with the arguments he presented.)
Thats my point, they arent, but everyone is so used to seeing left wing revolutionary groups portrayed this way that they jumped to the conclusion that they were. Those guys in the show are totally chuds.
I think people just read it like that because we are so used to seeing “Im a bad rebel guy who thinks we need to kill rich people and redistribute wealth! Thats why as my first action I will personally drown all these babies” you know? Thats pretty common, look at the riddler in The Batman (sorry for capeshit just saying).
well I worded it badly anyways. Yeah, the dudes in the last of us episode are fascist (or at least adjacent). I think were it gets confusing is the fireflies are left coded, and theyre the big revolutionary group. I thought the chuds from episode 5 were going to be firefly aligned at first, I havent played the game.
I’m cosigning with your line of thinking. In the HBO after-episode talks with the showrunners, Mazin says that revolutions usually result in a change in leaders who end up being more brutal/ineffective than the previous regime. It’s such an Animal Farm-esque meme that’s usually ascribed to leftist revolutionaries that also argues for the status quo/big-brain centrism
