Monopoly Socialism edition: "Capitalism is for Winners"

[melensdad]

Got to love Hasbro.

This is totally legit, they came out a a "Socialism" edition of Monopoly as a parody and it is fantastic. Liberals are crying foul because it 'misrepresents' real socialism. All I know is that some of the Twitter feeds are showing liberal heads exploding over how wrong it is to misrepresent the truth of Socialism.

Link to PJ Media story => https://pjmedia.com/trending/hasbro...sdq_YLLKr8ChsOPDZXl5k5ALEVS_uib_oRnOM7g0TDYp4

Link to Daily Caller story => https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/22/socialism-themed-monopoly/

I looked for it on Amazon and found it available from several 3rd party sellers yesterday but it seems to have vanished today. Same thing with Target.com's website. It was listed a day or two ago but I couldn't find it earlier today. You can still find it on eBay if you care to go there.

Here is a guy on Twitter with his panties all wadded up while he defends Socialism => https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1164233656799506433

 

[Leadeye]

Back in the 70s I remember a board game that came out called Public Assistance along similar lines, it was some sort of anti-Monopoly.

 

[maxwelhse]

Monopoly was originally invented as a tool to spread what we would call socialism today... So... I guess everything comes full circle eventually.

The original point of the game was to illustrate that property owners are rich evil people and that the lower class must over throw them to win by forcing them to share their resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord's_Game

There's a pretty fascinating documentary on Monopoly, and its roots, on Amazon Prime if anyone cares to watch it.

 

[melensdad]

Originally MONOPOLY was about rent/landlords and the evils of those things.

Now its all about how Capitalism lifts people out of poverty better than any other system ever devised.