nihilistic-nipple:

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demilypyro:

Thinking about how Disco Elysium frames communists as idealists who want a good thing that never gets accomplished because of infighting and frames fascists and centrists as literally the worst kinds of people to exist and people say it makes fun of everyone equally

And even among the latter two the game puts in a lot of writing to articulate the problems with centrism, how it is is used as a form of political control, and how it perpetuates a harmful status quo. Fascism doesn’t even get the dignity of ideological critique, the resolution of the fascism thought is just ranting about women and wanting a beer, it is beneath contempt for Disco.

The criticism for communism/socialism goes a little deeper; the alienation of the working people by intelligentsia, the necessities of corruption/crime, the avoidance of critique by calling it bourgeois (jealousy/physics is a bourgeois concept).

Fascism/nationalism/racism is put forth as pure delusion by people that need something to blame their misfortune - and to manipulate said people by demagogues. It is presented as what it is; nonsense, a myth to make someone feel better about themselves.

But at the end, despite its criticism, Disco Elysium puts communism as the only constructive ideology - the only future or humanistic alternative. The 3 others; liberalism/capitalism, moralism/centrism, conservatism/fascism are destructive to humanity either slowly eroding society or quickly killing it.

It’s only communism that allows you to hug someone. “A hug a day, keeps the bourgeoisie away”