• GamerCastro [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      In one of the Asassins Creed games he’s basically just a labour organizer/speech giver who says stuff a long the lines of “peace is the only way to achieve socialism”

      • buh [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        they might as well have made him say verbatim "vote blue no matter who" at least it would have been worth a laugh

      • VILenin [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        "Please don't destroy precious property, that's a violence."

        -Karl Marx, Assassin's Creed Syndicate

        • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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          4 years ago

          'We can assassinate people, but we can't destroy property', even for a video game that's dumb

          • Koa_lala [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            yes

            "Killing people and destroying property solves nothing. Democracy is the only road to socialism." ―Karl Marx rejecting violence as a method to achieve the emancipation of the working class, 1868. https://assassinscreed.fandom.com/wiki/Karl_Marx

            https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSaEE7xUkAEe6FK?format=jpg&name=large

            • kilternkafuffle [any]
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              4 years ago

              The first sentence kinda captures the ethos of the Emancipation of Labor Group, the first Russian Marxists - whom Lenin eventually joined. They were critical of the then dominant People's Will, a leftist terrorist movement that thought the only path to revolution was to bomb and assassinate as many bureaucrats, capitalists, and royals as possible. But, of course, the didn't eschew violence altogether.

              The second sentence is revisionist Marxism ala Eduard Bernstein, rejected by the vast majority of Marxists, never would have left Marx's lips.