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That "wot if the SPD defeated Hitler with electoral politics?" game seems off (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't understand the appeal of a revisionist history that absolves the SPD of paving the way for Hitler. Doubly so a revisionist history that somehow, after all the sacrifices and all the horror, pretends that the Nazis could have been defeated with electoral politics.

The very basic premise just sounds like a revisionist re-writing of history to pretend the SPD didn't have a critical role in destroying the "Good Future". It promulgates the idea that fascism can be defeated with liberal electoral BS in what was, historically, the most stern rebuke of liberal democracy in history. I don't get it. Who is this for?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Interesting.

This reminds me of a game I came across that was pretty similar which took you through the dawn of civilization and it was choose your own adventure where you were posed different binary choices based on historical developments and you'd take a path (e.g. opting to domesticate grain leads you down a mesopotamian path and opting to herd animals leads you down a Mongolian nomadic path) but it was really pretty materialist and it didn't shy away from class conflict.

I wish I could remember the name of it.

Edit: Don't ask me how I managed to find it - Idle Civilization: World Story
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=su.nkarulin.cardshistory

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

The dev is definitely a commie, the final challenge of the game is a cold war nuclear arms race against the capitalist world, and I'm fairly certain you always end up with socialist state, after a few revolutions. Workers will always rise up no matter how hard you try to stop them rat-salute-2