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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · 29d

#CommunistManifesto #MarxistGaming #Infindustry #MeansOfProduction #Bourgeoisie #Proletariat #SupplyChains #AlienationOfLabor #CapitalistExploitation #DialecticalMaterialism #VideoGameTheory

Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · 29d

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.

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · 29d

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.

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · 29d

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.

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · 29d

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."

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · 29d

Your role as the player is that of the emergent bourgeoisie. You begin with primitive accumulation, claiming land and resources to establish your first modes of production, seizing the means of production from the wilderness.

From the game Infindustry: A video game scene showing a river with a boat and wooden docks, surrounded by grass and trees. The text overlay reads: "Modern industry built the world market—colonial plunder turned into supply chains. Every ship, railroad, and factory just expanded the billionaire's playground."

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 5

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.

Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 5

#HudsonSoft #Nintendo #Konami #EmbracerGroup

Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 5

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.

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 5

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.

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 5

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.

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 5

You grow powerful enough to challenge the ultimate source of the power, the "Evil One" that emerged from the economic disaster.

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 5

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

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 5

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.

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 5

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.

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 5

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.

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 5

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.

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 5

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.

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 5

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.

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 5

You can interpret the entire world of Faxanadu as a society in the throes of a classic Marxist crisis. It all starts with a material, economic disaster: a meteor poisons the World Tree's water.

From the game Faxanadu: A retro 8-bit image of a fantasy landscape with gnarled trees, a small castle on a hill, and an orange color palette. The text, presented in a pixel font, reads: "Markets grew. Demand soared. Workshops couldn't keep up. Steam and machines changed everything—small shops got replaced by corporate factories, skilled owners by billionaire bosses. Same exploitation, bigger scale."

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 4

Eco-Fascist

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Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 4

#MarxistTheory #PrimitiveAccumulation #AlienationOfLabor #MeansOfProduction #ClassStruggle #TheGuild3 #SurplusValue #BourgeoisState #CapitalistRealism #GamingTheSystem

Progressive Pixelutionary @progpixelutionary.bsky.social · Oct 4

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.

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