Cointelamateur [they/them,he/him]
I mean its not very pro communist thats for sure, but I honestly feels like compared to a lot of games out there it gets a fairer shake than most. Communist faction demands are for healthcare, income equality and housing, which is pretty reasonable in general. In one of the games the campaign has one of the villains be the CEO of the United Fruit Company as well as hinting their connection with the CIA (who are also portrayed as meddlesome dicks). Privatization always seems like a bad strategy. Also Comrade Vasquez is the best advisor, hands down.
It is a fun game though, real solid small-scale city builder. The existence of political factions in the populace makes it more interesting, though they feel rather easy to please sometimes.
Engels really letting the quality of his work slip lately
These governments are all a choice you can make and equally valid for differing game strategies. Capitalism, however, is a tech you research and thus inevitable, permanent and immutable feature of all civilizations. It’s just natural, guys.
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Just admit that you had a change of heart after learning about the horrible things that have happened in socialist countries, and then start listing the most egregious crimes capitalist systems created, and the ways they brutally repress alternatives to their systems.
He’ll probably whine about ‘not real capitalism’ but I figure the point is to tick him off.
Dad was an immigrant to the US from the USSR, latched onto right wing stuff immediately and raised me as an anticommunist.
A bit of exposure to science in high school turned me lib, but at least opened the door to doubting preconceived notions. Then some gamergate bullshit in college put me on a bad path again as they pushed themselves as the people who were looking for the truth that was obscured by those dang agenda touting feminists, though they dived too quickly into obvious racism and sexism before i could be ‘eased’ into it. Big kudos out to the 'SJW’s who took the time to talk to me and help deconstruct the bullshit. Those people were well within their rights to just slap me across the face.
Actual radicalization happened a bit after when i became employed. I became more aware that the political discourse between ‘free and efficient private enterprise VS. big bad government’ was a false dichotomy when I had to deal with exploitative, greedy bullshit from both small business owners and corporations and watch them get away with it. Trump’s election played a part in it too, i feel like if you were a lib as displeased with the parties as I was there’s really nowhere else to go but left.
Dad fled the Soviet Union to the States before I was born, and as such has right wing opinions on pretty much anything except maybe gay people and abortion, buying into the stuff Republicans sell hook line and sinker. Raised in a wealthy place and surrounded by either conservatives or rich liberals, you can imagine how I was brought up. Communist was synonymous with pretty much any historical evil that has happened in the past, and since everyone was comfortable there was nobody around me that challenged that assumption at all.
Took a bit of time to realize my dad, while he had some legitimate grievances with the administration of the late USSR, wasn’t as wise as I thought. He acepted the American Dream to the point he refused to believe anyone in the US was disadvantaged in any way from achieving it, even though the only reason he could pull in a decent income was because of a free college education courtesy of the Soviets. He arbitrarily rejected science or news that didn’t fit in with what he thought freedom was, and gave passes to American repression, inefficiency and violence that he didn’t give to the USSR because it didn’t affect him personally. The fact that he admitted that he basically didn’t learn any marxist education at all actually helped make me more curious about the theory, though that I didn’t really question baseline liberalism until pretty recently.
Shame you can’t defect in the Cold War quest in order to uphold Marxism-Penguinism