I honestly believe that socialists ought to familiarize themselves with strategy games like Chess and Weiqi (Go). I've found that many leftists approach strategic questions with more the mindset of a religious adherent than the strategist, often believing that adherence to dogma and moral purity will carry them through rather than sound strategic reasoning. Strategy often consists less of assessing the situation as it is and weighting your options thusly, and more ritualistic aping of former revolutionary movements and their doctrines. This gives me the impression that many lefties don't have much experience thinking strategically, and I think could benefit greatly from classic games of strategy, like Chess and Weiqi/Go. By which, I don't mean you should master them, at a certain point the broader lessons of strategy games have get big diminishing returns as it becomes more and more about the specific rules of the game rather than broader strategic principles, but they should become familiar, as I don't believe you can really understand strategy unless you practice it.
Strategy Games
On the contrary improvements in tactical skill and blunder avoidance increase the strategic depth of these games
either way showing is better than telling, would you like to play a malkovitch game?
Yes, but this is based around the rules of the games themselves, rather than something more general.
What's a Malkovich game?
every leftist should read this imo, this book changed my life as much as Marxist theory did
A malkovitch game is played on a forum where the players explain the reasoning behind each of their moves
generally behind spoilers so the opponent has the option of not reading them until the end of the game
You might be surprised
Anyway do you prefer chess or go?
Redpill me on Guy Debords A Game of War.
Have you actually read it? It's a piece of shit stating things that or obvious for anyone that have played only a minute of the most basic games possible.
Chess was promoted in the Soviet Union and that's something we should do again.
Was about to post about this. Wasn't there an online version a while ago? Not sure what happened to it.
Actual Kriegsspiel seems pretty interesting too, though I wouldn't know because it's one of those really niche games in an already niche hobby.
Rather play my hand at learning ML algorithms then get bogged down by capitalist AI generals in the field of combat.
pdf plz