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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Milieu" data-source="post: 9367704" data-attributes="member: 7041560">The only explicitly Marxist game I know of is Avalon Hill's <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1510/class-struggle" target="_blank">Class Struggle</a>, which is not very good, but:<a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24181/imperial" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/321608/hegemony-lead-your-class-to-victory" target="_blank">Hegemony</a>, 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. <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24181/imperial" target="_blank">Imperial</a> 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, <a href="https://landlordsgame.info/" target="_blank">The Landlord's Game</a>, was intended to advocate for the economic system of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism" target="_blank">Georgism</a>. 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.")Not Marxist, but since most of the games in this thread are heavier ones, if you're looking for something lighter and more approachable, maybe <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/123260/suburbia" target="_blank">Suburbia</a>? It's not terribly realistic in terms of real-world economics or suburban planning, but there is an aspect of building up an economic engine and a Dutch Auction, and it's quite a good game. (<a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/155426/castles-of-mad-king-ludwig" target="_blank">Castles of Mad King Ludwig</a>, a similar game by the same designer, is, I think, slightly better, though with a less relatable theme.)</blockquote>

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