Posted on: October 15, 2019 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames Admires Red Vienna

TechnoPolitics Cadre Training “Every month my grandmother used to say, like a kind of mantra, ‘What an enormous amount of freedom we have gained’.” – Jutta Schwarz Communiqué 11: 22/9/19 Taste of Power: the great municipal socialism game In this mass-participatory role-playing game, a recently elected radical local council must battle with the legacy of their neoliberal predecessors and halt a disastrous redevelopment scheme. From Digital Liberties, the makers of…

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Posted on: August 24, 2019 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames Transforms the World in Brighton

Corbynista Cadre Training “The Labour Party is not a creed-bound thing of dogmas, but represents the state of self-consciousness reached by the working class.” – Keir Hardie. Communiqué 11: 22/9/19 Guy Debord’s The Game of War The Game of War is a Clausewitz simulator: a Napoleonic-era military strategy game where armies must maintain their communications structure to survive – and where victory is achieved by smashing your opponent’s supply network…

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Posted on: April 15, 2019 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames Leads the Class Struggle in Parliament

Lewisham Labour Cadre Training “The labouring classes have conquered nature; they have now to conquer humanity. To succeed in this attempt they do not want strength, but the organisation of their common strength, organisation of the labouring classes on a national scale – such, I suppose, is the great and glorious end aimed at by the Labour Parliament.” – Karl Marx. Meaningful Votes: the Brexit game Class Wargames will be…

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Posted on: November 19, 2018 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames Celebrates the Socialist Solstice

Labour Cadre Training Exercises “Earlier theorists aimed to equip the conduct of war with principles, rules, or even systems, and thus considered only factors that could be mathematically calculated (e.g., numerical superiority; supply; the base; interior lines). All these attempts are objectionable, however, because they aim at fixed values. In war, everything is uncertain and variable, intertwined with psychological forces and effects, and the product of a continuous interaction of…

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Posted on: October 8, 2018 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames Subverts the Anarchists

Sacrifice the Nomad Warriors “As an exemplary instance of avant-garde anti-anti-art, Class Wargames reveals the method by which Debord managed to play and not to play the game. It incorporates the know-how that the Situationists acquired over several decades of struggle. This is not the knowledge of a precarious worker in the chain of command, control and creativity, but a knowledge that reveals the impotence of the master since there…

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Posted on: September 27, 2018 Posted by: Richard Barbrook Comments: 0

Class Wargames Subverts the Avant-Garde

Art Theory in Practice “The avant-garde is thus the beginning of the realization of a novelty, but it is only the beginning. The avant-garde doesn’t have its field in the future, but in the present: it describes and begins a possible present, which its historic consequences will confirm in the ensemble by the most extensive realization (in making appear a certain number of errors). The practical activity of the avant-garde…

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