The only explicitly Marxist game I know of is Avalon Hill's Class Struggle, which is not very good, but: Hegemony, already mentioned by a few people in the thread, has the players each controlling a different economic class in the class struggle, so is at least in the neighborhood. Imperial is about playing an international investor who manipulates the countries of Europe for profit, which broadly lines up with Marxist theories of the 19th century great power conflicts. Both are on the heavy side though. (I'll also mention, in case you're not aware, that the original version of Monopoly, The Landlord's Game, was intended to advocate for the economic system of Georgism. Although some people describe it as "socialist", Marx was not a fan. He wrote that Georgism was "an attempt...to save capitalist domination and indeed to establish it afresh on an even wider basis than its present one.")EN World never fails! Thanks all, a lot to sort through.
It is probably a long-shot, but do any of them take a more Marxist bent?
I just tried this for the first time last week, and I really liked it. Got it as a gift. Right now, it feels like my brain's working overtime trying to remember other people’s moves. But, it's kinda hard to get folks to start playing since it’s a bit dryAcquire, from Boardgamegeek description
"In Acquire, each player strategically invests in businesses, trying to retain a majority of stock. As the businesses grow with tile placements, they also start merging, giving the majority stockholders of the acquired business sizable bonuses, which can then be used to reinvest into other chains."
QE, BGG description
"In Q.E., a term that stands for "quantitative easing", you play the role of a central bank. You bid on different size companies to accumulate various levels of victory points. The amount you bid is unlimited since you are the central bank and you own the printing press! After the initial "open" bid by the lead player, the other players bid in secret. This can be quite interesting for those who perform economics assignments and are still learning. Even if earlier only https://essays.edubirdie.com/economics-assignments or similar services could help a student cope. Over time, they begin to understand how it works. After the sixteen companies have been "bailed out", bonus victory points are awarded for company sets of nationalization, monopolization, and diversification."