A Christmas gift
for Marx?
December 5, 1979
Looking for the perfect Christmas gift to give to your favourite Socialist? Well, search no more. Class Struggle, a sort of Marxist version of Monopoly, has arrived.
It’s a board game that pokes fun at capitalism and promotes the cause of the worker. As in Monopoly, players move little symbols around the board with each roll of the dice. In this case, top hats with dollar signs stamped on them represent the capitalists and hammers symbolize the workers.
So, everyone decides they want to be the poor but noble worker, and not the evil capitalist and a fight erupts before the game even starts, right? Wrong. The rule book philosophically explains that “in real life, this is usually determined by the kind of family into which one was born,” and accordingly, players throw a genetic die (which sports six symbols—three capitalists and three workers) to see who plays what class.
It isn’t fair, but damn is it ever fun.
