Class Wargames leads the Slave Rebellion
“Classical society had reached a very high cultural and administrative level by the first century BC, probably as high a level, in general, as was reached anywhere prior to the Industrial Revolution, which began about 1750. Many of the prerequisites for such a technical revolution existed in classical society. What held back such a scientific revolution seems to have been chiefly the basic institution of slavery, at all times and…
Class Wargames Revives the Labour Left
Socialist Cadre Training “”All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” – Niccolò Machiavelli. Communique 11: 19/9/19 Taste of Power: the great municipal socialism game is a mass-participatory role-playing exercise designed to teach activists about how…
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…
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…
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…