Unless you are some disenfranchised leftist professor or some bitter person, you will love this game.
Is it a perfect representation of socialism? No. It's a parody, more importantly it's a parody of contemporary naive socialists in particular.
One could describe it: Monopoly, meets satire, meets cards against humanity.
The game essentially has you have a community fund (starts a 1848 dollars, like the year the Communist manifesto was published) and players start with no money but they all the use the community fund. There are opportunity cards people can get and these come in different categories: cards that can benefit you, cards that make take your money or the community fund money, but most of all cards that you can use to attack other players.
The game odds are stacked against the players, but they can make it if they all cooperate and play smart. However, there is one important lesson here: as soon as one (or more) players get greedy, the whole system falls apart.
Now one can say "it's not like true socialism", and no one argues with that, but the lesson is very real. All socialist and communist regimes failed and they failed because a few were greedy and made the system collapse.
Overall it's a fun game where players can either cooperate or undermine each other... but you require a sense of humor to play, and we know some simply do not have one.
| Model Number | E8029000 |
|---|---|
| Number of Game Players | 4 Players & above |
| Assembly Required | No |
| Batteries Required? | No |
| Batteries Included? | No |
| Mfg Recommended age | 8 year and up |
| Item model number | E8029000 |
| Product Dimensions | 4.1 x 30.5 x 26.7 cm; 703.07 Grams |
| ASIN | B07VPRNZJB |
