Progressive Pixelutionary
@progpixelutionary.bsky.social
Teaching Marxism through pixels so you can become more left than you were yesterday.
The entire process is a sanitized simulation of the bourgeoisie's historical role. It makes the systemic exploitation of labor and resources feel like a peaceful, logistical puzzle, obscuring the class antagonism at its core.
October 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The entire process is a sanitized simulation of the bourgeoisie's historical role. It makes the systemic exploitation of labor and resources feel like a peaceful, logistical puzzle, obscuring the class antagonism at its core.
This system concentrates wealth and power solely in your hands. You are the owner; the peons are the workers. The "happiness" you manage is a mechanic to ensure the smooth extraction of their labor, preventing the rebellion that arises from immiseration.
October 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This system concentrates wealth and power solely in your hands. You are the owner; the peons are the workers. The "happiness" you manage is a mechanic to ensure the smooth extraction of their labor, preventing the rebellion that arises from immiseration.
Your entire goal is constant expansion and the creation of a world market. You build roads and conveyor belts, revolutionizing the instruments of production to open new avenues for trade and create an ever-more complex web of supply chains for your commodities.
October 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Your entire goal is constant expansion and the creation of a world market. You build roads and conveyor belts, revolutionizing the instruments of production to open new avenues for trade and create an ever-more complex web of supply chains for your commodities.
You immediately create a proletariat—the "peons." They are the class who, possessing no means of production of their own, must sell their labor to you, harvesting and delivering resources for a wage, which in this game is abstracted into their mere subsistence and "happiness."
October 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
You immediately create a proletariat—the "peons." They are the class who, possessing no means of production of their own, must sell their labor to you, harvesting and delivering resources for a wage, which in this game is abstracted into their mere subsistence and "happiness."
Well you had a good run @badempanada.com they clearly got you good on this. Time to close up shop lol. 😅 This platform is such a perfect opposite for liberals like X is for conservatives.
October 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Well you had a good run @badempanada.com they clearly got you good on this. Time to close up shop lol. 😅 This platform is such a perfect opposite for liberals like X is for conservatives.
October 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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October 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
So, while it's a classic fantasy game on the surface, Faxanadu presents a surprisingly coherent story of economic determinism, class struggle, and revolutionary action.
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
So, while it's a classic fantasy game on the surface, Faxanadu presents a surprisingly coherent story of economic determinism, class struggle, and revolutionary action.
This can be seen as you becoming a "petty-bourgeois" adventurer, whose individual success is paradoxically tied to participating in the very economic system you are trying to save, rather than leading a collective workers' uprising.
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
This can be seen as you becoming a "petty-bourgeois" adventurer, whose individual success is paradoxically tied to participating in the very economic system you are trying to save, rather than leading a collective workers' uprising.
There's even a fascinating contradiction in your journey, one Marx would have appreciated. Your empowerment relies on the game's own capitalist mechanics: you grind for gold from slain enemies to buy better equipment from shops.
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
There's even a fascinating contradiction in your journey, one Marx would have appreciated. Your empowerment relies on the game's own capitalist mechanics: you grind for gold from slain enemies to buy better equipment from shops.
You grow powerful enough to challenge the ultimate source of the power, the "Evil One" that emerged from the economic disaster.
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
You grow powerful enough to challenge the ultimate source of the power, the "Evil One" that emerged from the economic disaster.
Through combat and acquiring resources, you are fundamentally changing the material conditions of the world. Your ascent up the World Tree is both a physical and a class ascent. economic determinism, class struggle, and revolutionary
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Through combat and acquiring resources, you are fundamentally changing the material conditions of the world. Your ascent up the World Tree is both a physical and a class ascent. economic determinism, class struggle, and revolutionary
Your role as the hero is not that of a chosen one, but of an ordinary individual who undergoes a process of revolutionary praxis. You aren't just leveling up; you are engaging in direct action.
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Your role as the hero is not that of a chosen one, but of an ordinary individual who undergoes a process of revolutionary praxis. You aren't just leveling up; you are engaging in direct action.
This is a literal, grotesque depiction of Marxist alienation. They are alienated from their own humanity, from the products of their labor as traders, and from their former elf allies. They become mere hostile extensions of the corrupted economic system.action.
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
This is a literal, grotesque depiction of Marxist alienation. They are alienated from their own humanity, from the products of their labor as traders, and from their former elf allies. They become mere hostile extensions of the corrupted economic system.action.
The State is using you to restore the status quo and ensure the survival of the very class system that benefits it.
The most powerful symbol in the game is the fate of the dwarves. They haven't just become enemies; they have been violently transformed into monsters.
The most powerful symbol in the game is the fate of the dwarves. They haven't just become enemies; they have been violently transformed into monsters.
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
The State is using you to restore the status quo and ensure the survival of the very class system that benefits it.
The most powerful symbol in the game is the fate of the dwarves. They haven't just become enemies; they have been violently transformed into monsters.
The most powerful symbol in the game is the fate of the dwarves. They haven't just become enemies; they have been violently transformed into monsters.
The King, representing the State, tasks you, a returning elf, with fixing the problem. He frames this as a noble quest for the communal good, but from a Marxist view, this is the ideological apparatus at work.
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
The King, representing the State, tasks you, a returning elf, with fixing the problem. He frames this as a noble quest for the communal good, but from a Marxist view, this is the ideological apparatus at work.
You have a static hierarchy with the Elven King and his nobility at the top, and the common elves—and formerly, the dwarven traders—below them.
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
You have a static hierarchy with the Elven King and his nobility at the top, and the common elves—and formerly, the dwarven traders—below them.
This isn't just a plot device; it's the "base" of society crumbling, creating a scarcity that drives the entire conflict. In this decaying world, the class structure becomes clear.
October 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
This isn't just a plot device; it's the "base" of society crumbling, creating a scarcity that drives the entire conflict. In this decaying world, the class structure becomes clear.
Eco-Fascist
October 4, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Eco-Fascist
Your ultimate goal is dynasty building—amassing permanent inter generational wealth. This secures the concentration of the means of production, ensuring your family's class position as owners for generations.
October 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Your ultimate goal is dynasty building—amassing permanent inter generational wealth. This secures the concentration of the means of production, ensuring your family's class position as owners for generations.