In some degree such a view seems justifiable. There is a certain section of Socialists, chiefly in England, who never tire of hailing all such demands for state activity as a sign of the growth of the Socialist spirit among the middle class, and therefore worthy of all the support the working-class democracy can give. In Ireland we have our middle class reformers demanding state help for agriculture, state purchase of lands, arterial draining, state construction of docks, piers and harbours, state aid for the fishing industry, state control of the relations between agricultural tenant and landlord, and also nationalisation of railways and canals.
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Thus we find in England demands for the nationalisation of the telephone system, for the extension of municipal enterprise in the use of electricity, for the extension of the parcel system in the Post Office, for the nationalisation of railways and canals. One of the most significant signs of our times is the readiness with which our struggling middle class turns to schemes of State or Municipal ownership and control, for relief from the economic pressure under which it is struggling. Thank you for selling another one, I’m gonna go look to buy one right now.ĭamn! I think you convinced me to buy this now.James Connolly: State Monopoly versus Socialism (1899) Oh where are you? You’re going to love this! What!? You mean somebody made a game that promotes ceaseless mockery of socialism? Yeah! Gimme two! Always open for new experiences and what better way to experience socialism than with a fun parody game that could easily offend thin skinned drones! Refreshing! /73RL4X23Mm It’s wasted here.įunnily enough, instead of getting dissuaded, lots of Twitter users became more interested in buying the game after reading Kapur’s impassioned thread. The game designer in me wants to see if there’s something salvageable in this premise. It’s making fun of a version of “socialism” that you’d get from someone telling you secondhand what they heard on Fox News. Thorny On Main for Komaeda August 21, 2019 Socialism doesn’t involve private banks, or competing against each other for profit “monopoly: socialism” fails at the most basic level as a parody, because its systems have no connection to the way socialism, or social democracy (what this game thinks “socialism” is) even works Seems more like something you’d find in a Christian bookstore next to the Kirk Cameron Left Behind films. I’m actually shocked something this ignorant and mean spirited would be produced by a non-fringe company. 14/ /8LBOk00laBĪs expected, there are people who have the same opinion as Kapur. 13/ /tvEqdf2z5Fīut then when the minimum wage is increased, this wage doesn’t actually increase, but instead, once again for no reason the community fund pays money to a private bank. Similarly, when you pass go, you get a $50 “living wage,” which was presumably reduced from the usual $200 to emphasize that “socialism makes everyone poorer” or somesuch. It’s akin to conservatives constantly saying, “If Warren Buffett likes taxes so much, why doesn’t he just donate to the IRS?” 11/Īnd then confusedly, when it’s time to pay taxes, the taxes do not go into the community fund, but rather are paid *from* the community fund to a private bank! 12/ /3TcDI0t882 It’s more of a billionaire philanthropy model.
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At this point, the only way to fill it back up and keep the game going is for players to donate money to it voluntarily. 9/ /R7uTUFcfeCīut the community fund is gleefully and deliberately designed to be constantly running out of money. Which seems kinda socialist at first glance. I bought a copy of Hasbro’s mean-spirited and woefully ill-informed “MONOPOLY: SOCIALISM” board game so you don’t have to – a thread 1/ /YhZWDjkAnjįor example, there is a community fund, and if a player doesn’t have enough money to pay for something, the community fund automatically pays the difference. At the beginning of his lengthy thread, Kapur called Monopoly Socialism “mean-spirited” and “woefully ill-informed” because of its very poor understanding of what socialism really is.