Class Struggle Is the Name of the Game (was Re: Dope Wars)

[Forstater, Mathew]

when I was at the New School another student wrote an interesting paper where
Chess, Monopoly, Class Struggle, and other games were used as metaphors for
different modes of production.

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Subject: Class Struggle Is the Name of the Game (was Re: Dope Wars)


>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/15/technology/15DOPE.html?0315ci

The best part of the article appears to me to be the following:

*****   One player, Matthew Cook, said he had become obsessed with 
DopeWars while he was a graduate student at the Marshall School of 
Business at the University of Southern California.  He said the game 
reflected lessons taught in his classes, including market testing, 
risk management, inventory control and money management.  And of 
course, in the twilight of the dot-com age, it plays to the interest 
in sudden riches as players watch the price of drugs skyrocket.

"It's like your company I.P.O.'s at five times what you expected it 
to," he said.  (Mr. Cook's own company, an Internet start-up, 
recently went under.)   *****

Has anyone read _Class Struggle Is the Name of the Game: True 
Confessions of a Marxist Businessman_ by Bertell Ollman?  It's out of 
print now, I think.