Class Struggle is the Name of the Game

[Brad Mayer]

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>At 03:39 PM 3/16/01 -0500, you wrote:
>>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.
>
>Like a typical american, I played the game (to death in the 80s), didn't 
>read the book.
>
>What we need now is the computer game version.  It can be historical, too 
>"Class struggle (or Revolution) through the Ages".  Pitch it as an 
>educational product.
>
>-Brad Mayer
>
>>"Class Struggle was a 1970s board game, conceived as a socialist
>>alternative to Monopoly, in which players were randomly assigned to
>>different classes and moved around the board forming cross-class
>>alliances, engaging in struggle, and heading for one of two mutually
>>exclusive destinations: Socialism or Barbarism.  The box sported a
>>rather good photo-montage of Karl Marx arm-wrestling Nelson
>>Rockefeller.  Improbably enough, a photograph exists of Helmut Kohl
>>at the 1980 Frankfurt Book Fair holding a boxed set of Klassenkampf,
>>the German edition of the game" (at
>><http://www.voiceoftheturtle.org/dictionary/dict_c1.shtml>).
>>
>>"Dr Ollman, of New York University, spent seven years working out
>>'Class Struggle'.  It bears a superficial resemblance to 'Monopoly'
>>- -- 'another political game', he says -- with players throwing dice
>>and chasing each other round the board.  You can be a Worker (with a
>>hammer symbol), a Capitalist (with a top hat) or a member of the
>>minor classes, such as Farmer, Student or Small Businessman.  Rule
>>One states that 'Class Struggle' can be played by two to six players;
>>Rule Two adds, though, that the real players are classes, not
>>individuals; Rule Three stresses that only the Workers or the
>>Capitalists can win.  That's life, says Dr Ollman" (at
>><http://pages.eidosnet.co.uk/johnnymoped/isthisthereallife/isthisthereallife_theendofthespectacle_page2.html>).
>>
>>Visit "Bertel Ollman: Communism Now":
>><http://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/di001.htm>.
>>
>>Yoshie
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