The Last Communist - a Disco Elysium Montage

[@BirdNoise77]

You can think communist thoughts, read communist books, say communist things, ect ect, but you'll still get called a liberal by the last character. Perfect game.

[@jaredvincent3323]

I mean he's a hardcore orthodox Marxist. They're all about ideological purity

[@frankheninja1]

@devoflausburgh548the makers of the game are out and proud self identifying communists. Which is good.

[@idontknowwasdead3726]

​@devoflausburgh548It is a commie game.

[@therealgooseman2358]

​@devoflausburgh548 It is literally a commie game, the people who made it are communists. They thanked Karl Marx while accepting their award for best indie game, they're not remotely subtle about their ideological leanings.

[@rana-1337]

​@devoflausburgh548 the devs outright thanked Marx, Engels, Tsoi, Mayakovsky, and other communists at the game awards, its very obv a commie game lol u just suck at media literacy

[@Mackenzie1942]

"All the real communists are dead. They died fighting for communism." I would never imagine to hear a line like this from a video game.

[@thebighurt2495]

I have a theory on that. When the Revolution comes, you know who charges the machine guns first? The ones that care. The ones that live are them who took a step back and let the others die for them.

[@Mackenzie1942]

@@thebighurt2495 Indeed.

[@theslavbeing335]

communists being killed by communism is the greatest irony.

[@theslavbeing335]

@Jose Mengelez shit my pants. Get out of bed. Breakfast.

[@greysnake2903]

Brought you by the Moralintern.

[@meg4003]

the line of this game that hit me too hard, Harry has the option to say to Mañana "It sounds to me like you're a communist that doesn't want to call yourself a communist because you don't think you're doing enough."

[@zergscaper4714]

story of my life

[@jonnyrango9920]

oof... *oof...*

[@markmikolay9019]

“Complaining about other communists is one of the most important parts of being a communist” Why is this so spot on lmao

[@Holuunderbeere]

Does that mean the u.s is communist in the long run

[@EnlighthenedOne123]

Well, when you are a dialectic materialist, discourse, debates and controversies become a dime a dozen naturally. It is exactly due to this internal clash of thoughts that Left as a whole is quite divided today.

[@JojoTheRed]

Because the creators are communists and know from experience.

[@soldierbr8726]

@@EnlighthenedOne123 it always has been commies love hating on other commies

[@EnlighthenedOne123]

@@soldierbr8726 Makes you wonder how it all could have been if love was predominant, right?

[@Kim.Kitsuragi]

Why don’t we start *building* evidence for the case first, detective?

[@batlash1]

We are in China, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba

[@MegaAnzora]

I have a feeling it's connected

[@saltmerchant749]

Somehow I *knew* it was communism that killed him.

[@red_wheelbarrow641]

^come the union is^ behind this kim

[@NBH-xh3nq]

@@batlash1 Definitely the first 4 places I think of when I hear the word utopia

[@amy_grace]

The politics in DE's writing have a lot of nuance-even the fascist questline has a lot of empathy for the people who are attracted to that kind of worldview-but the way Harry specifically engages with them is almost always comically shallow, just blurting out the most extreme edgelord version of whatever's currently at the top of his Thought Cabinet. Even if you're e.g. an ultralib at Joyce or a super-racist with Measurehead, they're like "...uh-huh, sure buddy." If you dig into the "vision quests," it's even more apparent that no matter what ideology you have Harry go all-in for, he's just using it as a distraction and/or coping mechanism, not much different from booze and drugs. It's pretty clever writing: they can say Serious Things About Politics with the world-building and still go scorched-earth silly satire with the protagonist. Oh also: this video fucking rules, holy shit

[@JamrockHobo]

Yes! and it's what makes the fascist quest so interesting to me. It goes way further than just saying "fascism bad" and tells a story about why it is attractive to people in the first place. Also, Harry going overboard with his political ideology of the day is never not funny to me. "Stop this meat grinder thing - it's off-putting, even for fellow communists." Or Evrat saying "You're not an ultraliberal, Harry. Get the fuck out of here. Don't be retard."

[@obolisk0430]

I'll have to take another look then. I didn't get very far, and the way it was depicting fascism as far as I'd seen didn't seem nuanced at all, which is more or less what I'd expect from a game made by open communists.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

Holy shit your right, these days culture wars and politics are the opium of the masses not religion

[@skatepunk4853]

​@@obolisk0430 Since the game is ultimately from Harry's perspective (even the narration is voices in his head, remember), you're seeing things how Harry perceives them. So, each ideology starts off being presented cynically, but you start getting more nuance as Harry gets further into that belief system.

[@pedrolobo4860]

​@@obolisk0430 Lmao, the game outright tells you communism is dead and impossible to achieve at every opportunity, but I'm betting you got triggered at the “lack of nuance” over the slightest hint of criticism toward fascism. The game criticizes you even if you don’t pick a political agenda, and I’m not talking moralintern here, I’m talking truly apolitical. Criticism is part of a nuanced take, if you don’t want it, then you really just want the game to tell you that you’re right for believing what you do.

[@Mene0]

"All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*" I'm personally attacked

[@formerly_human]

I love disco elysium because it shares the same hope as so much of eastern-european art and music I love, it's so bright and small in all the depression, it's both intense like the first time you realize your friends love you, and as soothing as waking up with the sun, it's streets and sodium lights. The sky. The world. You're still alive.

[@JamrockHobo]

Kurvitz once said that Disco Elysium is a post-sowjet piece art through and through

[@JohnSmith-gz4fs]

Could you give some suggestions of eastern european art and music?

[@formerly_human]

@@JohnSmith-gz4fs I'm Russian so I'm more familiar with Russian stuff, but good musicians that give me a similar feeling are Leonid Fyodorov and Egor Letov, they're pretty easy to find on KZbin, just type in their names :]

[@TalkingVidya]

"You feel like Kras Masov wanted to fuck with *you* personally" as a marxist, it hit me like a bag of rocks

[@PankoBreading]

As an Ancom who constantly pivots between "were so doomed" and "HUMANITY DIDN'T GOT SO FAR JUST TO DIE LIKE THIS" I just cannot feel less identified with that phrase, I wholeheartedly believe we're able to achieve a better future, and I wish it could be achieved through pacific means, but sometimes watching the news it feels like I'm just lying to myself Also HOLA DANNY MIRA ESTOY EN LA TELE 🤙🤙🤙🤙

[@dorianrisse4079]

@@PankoBreading I fell your pain man ! im french and right now as an anarchist forging a better future through "pacific means" seems like a waste of time. If the person in control is willing the state can just ignore what the people want.

[@amy_grace]

"Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world." If you know, you know.

[@lucretialain3294]

Me and you both, friend...

[@nelitogorostiza16]

Es el meme ese de "the mire you know..." Literally me fr fr

[@facundonicolasperez5061]

Kim: ideology doesn't have anything to do with the murder investigation at hand. You couldn't be more wrong Kim. You couldn't be more wrong...

[@giannisspinos6649]

At the end of the day he was right, no?

[@chekhososlanian1942]

In the end, Kim was right. The murder happened because of envy and hatred of a miserable old man, who wasn’t able to let go his past

[@obolisk0430]

​@@chekhososlanian1942 yes. All matters of ideology are fundamentally distractions, from the investigation into the murder, and from Harry's past.

[@yuichikita6018]

Communism killed him, but love pulled the trigger.

[@loopholesloopy]

I love DE because it turns out all the weird random hunches and nonsense you get from inland empire at the begging of the game and so on is true, there is a sexy twist, communism did kill the hanged man, this game is so expert at setting things up and paying them off, even the cryptid.

[@silvernoodles]

This edit / the general vibe captured of how depressing it is to be a communist is so good / sad, but I will admit the bit that got me was a line I’d missed before that’s surprisingly hopeful: “You’ve built it before, they’ve built it before. Hasn’t really worked out yet, but neither has love. Should we stop building love?”

[@JamrockHobo]

I truly love that line too

[@user-zz3sn8ky7z]

@@bogdanov2395 I live in a post-"communist" country, ours was relatively rich, so we didn't have large scale famines, just starving individuals. We did have our coups, our "cultural revolutions" and ruin as expected, all we experienced since was a slow and steady decline with no hope of rebuilding within the contemporary socialist framework. Then we got another coup, a capitalist one, that was 4 decades ago Did it solve starvation? No, the deaths remained roughly the same Did it solve unrest? No, there are tens of thousands protesting in the streets, and far-right extremism is rising Did it save our culture? No, it's being further eroded by anti-intellectualism and twisted for political convenience Did it save our economy? Briefly, but material security is slipping away once again, and is bound to continue to do so Did it give us future? No, capitalism has a hard-set limit, a line after which so few own so much that they are uncontested in their authority. Are there any alternatives that have a chance of establishing themselves? Yes, fascism, I think that says enough. That's why, for now at least, I'm a communist. I'm a communist despite being fully aware of it's past hienous crimes, despite drawing no illusions about the corrupt and genocidal governments of the so-called "people's republics". That's why I believe and try to strive towards those unfulfilled and perhaps unfulfillable promises of classless society, ruled directly by the people, despite knowing how they historically failed each and every time... Because at the end of the day, despite the dozens of books I read and educated men i listened to, I don't know of any other future to strive for The fact that democracy became the standard of the civilized world is a miracle. It's a flawed, ineffective, fragile system held in power only through sheer will of it's people. There's a reason why it took it so long to establish itself globally after it's inception. I hope we'll be blessed again, because that's all there is left

[@DarrenSmith-j8m]

@@user-zz3sn8ky7z I live in a much more wealthy country, never had any wars here really but even then you can feel material security slipping away even if your wealthy. Housing crisis is a thing, media keeps saying its a supply issue and that we need to give landlords and developers more money and leeway so they can build more houses when it is infact an artificial supply issue cause landlords will buy a shit ton of houses and keep them empty to drive up the cost of their other houses, and even if they arent they likely just use them for airbnb or rent cause that is so much more profitable than giving away the land to a buyer. Whoever thought that making a system that incentivizes greed and thought it would just go along smoothly forever is retarded. Even more so to the people who think capitalism is the end of history and that its the ultimate system. Thats not how it works. There will be change eventually.

[@doru440]

​@@user-zz3sn8ky7z very well said

[@phatle2089]

"Do it, for the working class" 💪🫡

[@TheBeyspieler]

"Oh yeah,we're talking about white-hot *communist sex*, baby." will never not leave me in stitches. That fucking delivery.

[@UltimaZix]

That elusive vibe you attempted to capture? You did it.

[@coolfish420]

The devs wrote the communism parts of this game with a knowing familiarity, humour and hope that isn't in any of the other vision quests. It's so good! It's not unproletarian to feel something.

[@elickson7340]

Well they're commies of course they did that

[@LatinaCreamQueen]

"I have discovered that politics in games is objectively fun and that all gamers love it all the time. The only ones that say they don't like it ACTUALLY love politics in gaming even more, they just wished they were seeing different politics."

[@Chillerll]

Disco got you always covered though. They have ultra-liberalism, which is obviously the true path, and a bunch of other political nonsense for all the degenerates out there.

[@greysnake2903]

@Felix C. Liberalism is also founded by and for degenerate ghouls who do self-fellatio. Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing. There’s nothing modest about being a neo-libturd.

[@monarchtherapsidsinostran9125]

Lmfao. Lol even. That's not what they mean. I can speak for me on this. Its literally if its shoved and forced down my throat and giving no other good options, or censoring a product because of the creators political allignment. Been against that style of politics in games since day 1 with conservatives trying to get rid of blood and lewdness in games. Now progressives do the same dumb thing towards games. As a historical game enjoyer i need politics in those games where its needed. If you don't have communist images in a game about the soviet union its stupid. Its censored and cowardly by the devs to remove it. Same for anything else. Anyway good job at misinterpreting everyone thats against weirdo twitter leftoids that ruined most triple A games. (They would have done it themselves with their greed anyway but still.)

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

That quote is such unaware copium huffing done by a seething mind that I can *feel* the mental gymnastics they are doing lol, I love it.

[@houston1342]

The human condition is a mistake.

[@dr.veronica6155]

The communist vision quest actually shows that apparently, with enough legitimate belief, communists (maybe anybody, but so far we've only seen it from communists) can actually effect material reality with their ideals, and possibly even push back the Pale, which makes sense if you've both played the game and read the book and have the explanations given in both of them to understand what it seemingly is.

[@thebighurt2495]

@GnomishBoogerSyndrome Nah, the Pale's been around for centuries

[@franklinhuang]

@@thebighurt2495 Did it originate from the thoughts of humans or accelerated by negative ones?

[@TheMcderper]

@@franklinhuang SPOILER:(iirc) basically the pale is the physical embodiment of dead futures. So basically the “future” flows into the past and people sensitive to the “flow” it gives off can “see” the future. But if someone on the past “sees” the future and makes it come early what happens to the future that they saw? It dies, it dies and needs to leave a corpse. That corpse being the pale.

[@void-creature]

2:21 Deserter: "Sadness is a mental illness, a weapon of the bourgeoisie." Also the Deserter: says some of the saddest things ever uttered by anyone

[@randomserb761]

He's a defeatist and an arch-escapist, driven by his traumas to effectively abandon the struggle. He cannot possibly know about the historical moment or the future potential for revolution, he has analysed nothing. All that remained for him to do on the historical stage is a lone act of terror, antithetical to communist tactics, a sad potshot which, despite its futility, still demonstrated the power the Deserter had and could have had to change the course of human lives.

[@K_E_Robin]

Something cracks inside. Broken from within. Like glass. A convulsion to cry comes over me, but my nerves puts it down like a rabid dog. My face distorts into an expression of apathy. The epitome of loss.

[@DylanBelievesInTheNet]

Turn from the ruin. Turn and go forward. Do it for the working class.

[@almalone3282]

Yes comrade!!! And then when we take power we can exploit the working class just as bad if not worse than the old regime, all while the newer fairer and totally not corrupt upper class gets fat on pork and rice while those disgusting rural peasants starve.

[@biggiesmalls6270]

in the name of Harman

[@DylanBelievesInTheNet]

@@biggiesmalls6270 Harrier would fit in with the world of Grasshopper Manufacture games, he got to Kill the Past.

[@lastsaneman19]

[Hug Her] Working Class Woman: What are you doing? DuBois: Fighting for the working class, one hug at a time.

[@JamrockHobo]

"One hug a day keeps the bourgeoisie away."

[@ohheckitsthatkid7364]

"All it has done is make him a very sad boy, with something like a degree in the world. Instead of building communism, he builds a replica of this gross duplicitous world"

[@vagusmaximus3711]

Where's quote from?

[@ohheckitsthatkid7364]

@@vagusmaximus3711 disco elysium

[@sabotabby3372]

@@vagusmaximus3711 Mazovian Socio-Economics

[@harpererdoesminecraft2338]

the dialogue when you opt out of the communist thought gives you a second chance to take it and it is pretty convincing.

[@terran5364]

RHETORIC - Anyone? Anyone else? There's no one? VOLITION - There's one. YOU - What should I do? VOLITION - You should build Communism -- precisely *because* it's impossible.

[@Psycho_Odessit]

Dialectical)

[@efueds]

That edit at 4:49 where the visual calculus roll completes right as the deserter says 'dead' was smooth!

[@JamrockHobo]

didn't even realize that!

[@Saw321lol]

4:46*

[@samspencer1684]

this is also cool to me since the entire idea of a montage was created by filmmakers in the soviet union, so this is REALLY a tribute to communism

[@JamrockHobo]

Robert Kurvitz credited a few early sowjet artists as inspiration for the game, so it's a tribute to a tribute :)

[@GarboTheGreat]

Well yeah, propaganda is no good if you think about it for too long.

[@samspencer1684]

@@GarboTheGreat soviet montage was not created initially as propaganda, just a way for filmmakers to play with continuity in a non-linear fashion. Was it used as propaganda later? For sure. But the same could be said for documentaries if you attribute the fact that many modern documentary styles are derived from propaganda films in Nazi Germany.

[@GarboTheGreat]

@@samspencer1684 Considering that all film during the era in which soviet montage was created went through Narkompros (People's Commissariat for Education), all film in the early 1920s was directly approved by the Soviet. Also considering that many of the films well known for Soviet Montage are super propagandized (Kino-Eye, Battleship Potempkin, Mother) I feel that my statement is valid.

[@PowersOfDarkness]

@@GarboTheGreat Propaganda is actually ideal when thought about for long periods, thats the best propaganda, how else would you expect to spread information? because thats what propaganda means, it does not mean "to lie". That use of the word is based on propagating the idea that you are not subject to propaganda that justifies the status quo. Be aware of your biases, that way one can consume propaganda of all sorts, and better navigate the factuality of the propaganda you encounter.

[@TalkingVidya]

I'm obssesed with this video. Because it perfectly captures the sadness of living in a late stage capitalist world, while still having hope for the working class in the future.

[@aloneinthedark99]

You're a member of the working class then huh? Let me guess, pipefitter? Maybe sanitation?

[@TalkingVidya]

@@aloneinthedark99 I'm an engineer, the fact that I have a degree does not change the reality that I *have* to work to live. I do not own private property, I don't earn money by just owning things. If tomorrow I don't go to work, I don't get paid because I did not give my labor to my employeer, while the owner of the company will still make money even if he dosen't do anything.

[@aloneinthedark99]

@Talking Vidya invest your money. If you don't make enough as an engineer to have some left over to invest I don't know what to tell you

[@alexjeffrey3981]

@@aloneinthedark99 it's a very individualist line of thinking to see the plight of the working class and say "this one guy makes enough money to scrape together some savings, so the system is fine actually".

[@TalkingVidya]

@@alexjeffrey3981 and yes, I do have savings, but like, come on, I know that's a privilage not many people can get, and I only have it because as of right now, the owning class has a interest in paying premium for my abilities

[@nihil8373]

"In the dark times, should the stars also go out" this line is the one that I keep reminding myself.

[@IronFishChannel]

I love how whatever ideology you pick you get criticized for it even if you don't pick an ideology

[@JamrockHobo]

RHETORIC - "Say one of these fascist or communist things or fuck off"

[@IronFishChannel]

@@JamrockHobo "you don't want to pick one? What are you, some kind of Moralist?"

[@normalhuman1679]

“Hey are you some sorta fence sitter?!? Gross!” -every ideology

[@TheSolitaryEye]

Tells you a lot about the state of mind of the disco dude you're playing as, that no matter what he chooses, he berates himself for it.

[@greysnake2903]

Very Petersonian.

[@tomfallon4440]

Rise and shine comrades, we've got work to do

[@MsUmbyy]

Rise and shine comrades, we've got work to do

[@ВикторМельник-д9ц]

0.0003% of communism is built, so together comrades with a song.😉

[@EnlighthenedOne123]

Wake the fuck up Revolutionary, we have a child murdering slaver billionaire to burn.

[@孫顥-g9g]

天上太阳红呀红彤彤，心中的太阳是毛泽东。

[@stevensmith1031]

Sunrise, parabellum

[@mehrnu8820]

every once in a while i come back and listen to this. its surprisingly optimistic

[@faunt07]

Hah, optimistic for whom? It's only optimistic for bazillioners who rule the world.

[@jonnyrango9920]

i followed you on twitter but i never knew you had the capacity to make me cry

[@jonnyrango9920]

TURN! TURN FROM THE RUIN!!

[@Nobody-hw6jv]

Heart breaking. You really did a job with avoiding spoilers.

[@MultiMasterworld]

It is insane how good this game does this shit

[@catboynestormakhno2694]

I keep coming back to this video, it's awesome

[@catboynestormakhno2694]

a year later and i still come back to this video once in a while

[@duartealbano4718]

@@catboynestormakhno2694 same bro

[@flourbvoy1269]

"Turn from the ruin. Turn and go forward. Do it for the working class." One of my favourite lines in the game. The dialogue with the Insulindian Phasmid is just so beautifully written. Thank you so much, JH, for being such a wonderful part of this community. I hope you have a nice day. :)

[@polkunus]

Yes - you're ready to start building communism *again*. You've built it before, *they've* built it before. Hasn't really worked out yet, but neither has *love* - should we just stop building love, too?

[@Personal_Chizo]

Brother, this is simply glorious. Makes me wanna crack a few million eggs... Or crack a few submersibles filled with billionaires.

[@JamrockHobo]

Forbidden snack cabin

[@yetanotherkeyblader3572]

@@JamrockHobo canned food for sea creatures

[@CaptainConan]

"I think we should randomly sink cruise ships." - Bill Burr

[@skatepunk4853]

You don't need to crack the submersibles, they do well enough at that on their own.

[@hydroxide5507]

the only thing cracking is you when people raise their voice in public 😂😂😂 "the internet made people too comfortable with talking shit and not getting punched in the mouth"

[@ZombieBiologist]

This is absolutely excellent. I think the only other thing I'd include is sniffing Kim to see if he's a communist, because homoerotic brotherhood is, after all, one of the most important parts of communism. Beautifully edited, as funny and devastating as Disco itself. I love the way this game handles politics - at once realistic, critical, and accurate. It really makes the bullshit going down with the lawsuits even worse - or, better, as it's somehow completely accurate to the world of Elysium.

[@thomasford5893]

what lawsuits

[@ZombieBiologist]

@@thomasford5893 Creators of DE (all anarcho-commies) were forcibly outed from ZA/UM by a ceo who wants to include microtransactions in the sequel. They now own the IP rights to Disco Elysium. There's a fair amount of ongoing litigation over it, and it's awful.

[@JamrockHobo]

Oooh that is such an amazing scene. You are right, I could have included it!

[@cobalt_op]

​@@ZombieBiologistAncoms? Weren't they Marxists from the ussr?

[@Garl_Vinland]

“Are WOMEN the bourgeoisie…?”

[@JamrockHobo]

a measurehead video is in the works...

[@gaffgarion7049]

@@JamrockHobo "We will free the Revacholian ethnostate from internationalist financiers, crush the communists and put WÖMEN back in the fucking kitchen BRÜDER!"

[@ธนาเดชศุภนัทนพร]

The Matriarchy's the secret government all along!

[@wlos395]

Feels like a good damn official trailer with this quality!

[@antivalidisme5669]

The moment the deserter accepts you as a fellow comrade because you're a genuine Mazovian follower id est communist like myself. Wrecked me. What an incredible and unique game."The Smiths"

[@cossackinthesack9110]

This is a great montage video. I love how sympathetic/unsympathetic the game is with each political view point. I hope you end up making montages for the other political routes also.

[@JamrockHobo]

I do plan a video on the fascist route

[@cossackinthesack9110]

@@JamrockHobo Real Revacholian hours

[@Simitr007]

Так как я из советского союза я также шёл по этой ветке, но ещё предсказывал конец света, так как я ещё и пессимист

[@discoinferno703]

А получилось, как в vampire the masquerade Just another day, the shame is gone... (Спойлер) ни там, ни там на главном герое заезды не сошлись; и там, и там он просто маленькая фигура, которой уж точно не предстоит ни увидеть, ни предсказать, ни, уж точно, остановить этот самый конец света.

[@sol5339]

as one the last communists, as long as the contradictions of capitalism exist, there will always be struggle, the class of exploitation of others and the exploited and one group is far larger than the others. The deserter is wrong on this, the opportunity for Revolution has not passed, the battle is going again.

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

Yes there will be lots of ideology and reactionary movements to the default concept that gets blamed for things that are typically not even its fault and yet none have or will do better from what I’ve seen. I mean Iam sure the next conceptualized belief system will fix everything. “all hail the Rastafarian-Judaic-socialistic monarchy with individualist-agnostic atheistiism undertones”

[@lopata_of_death6894]

и сердцу тревожно в груди...

[@sol5339]

Lenin is young again!

[@lopata_of_death6894]

@@sol5339 и юный октябрь впереди.

[@Lo-opss]

No revolution seemed posible util it happened

[@lGranAdventures1]

That last part made my hair bristle

[@Adam-hi3vg]

real shivers check succeeded

[@cat_city2009]

Being based isn't easy, but someone's gotta do it.

[@billy6044]

i have cried to this video 3 times.

[@InsecureCreator]

Actually crying

[@Shane-A112]

this video is roughly equivalent to two cigarettes and a 2oz shooter. good god we are so lost.

[@Tantibus9]

All of history stands behind us and oblivion awaits just beyond the horizon, it is now or never. We will achieve victory because we must.

[@StephWash]

This video will make even ultraliberals mourn for communism

[@amy_grace]

(Joyce voice) It's the longing, baby

[@MsUmbyy]

the vibes are immaculate

[@CyanSen6]

"All the real Communists are dead. They died for *Communism* -- are you *dead*?" Then, I must be a dead man, walking...

[@the-letter_s]

did you really need a youtube video to figure that out? we all are.

[@krasmazov8]

@@the-letter_s No we aren't, we will be, eventually, I think they are simply calling themselves a real communist, which I consider to be a good thing

[@CyanSen6]

​@@the-letter_s na, its just a cool quote I thought

[@the-letter_s]

@@CyanSen6 fair enough.

[@bovineavenger734]

criiiinge

[@SMT-ks8yp]

2:03 Agaisnt all evils that capital can conjure, against all wickedness that the borgeoise can produce...

[@MaymayMakesThings]

this video is my spirit animal

[@anarchohelenism]

Lo-fi beats to eat the rich to

[@tabachivq]

I tried the "communist path" for the first time recently. I laughed my ass off when I saw that the effects of the thought was -1 Logic and -1 Authority. Communism literally made me dumber.

[@Jazz-Mahanahan]

This is truly beautiful

[@the_quadracorn]

So it's my dedication to communism that has made me good in bed. I'm not dedicated enough to reach 8 hours. I may only rebuild 25-30% of communism.

[@CharlesFreckles]

This video just gets more relevant by the day

[@theblackrose3130]

"Oh the Anarchists to! They shot them well. So well one forgets they even existed."

[@imperial4947]

130 reál says he’s doing the fascist edit next (for Revachol.)

[@JamrockHobo]

🤫

[@spacecasejay]

hes quite literally me.

[@highecuador1873]

When you're depressed it is easier to say sadness is a mental illness and a weapon of the bourgeois.

[@AndrewFullerton]

It's also not wrong. Since the development of capitalist industrialism we are more stressed, more socially isolated, and a more unsatisfied with life. I've seen people resort to self harm and even suicide as a direct result of specific capitalist pressures -- Getting summarily fired from one of your three jobs when you already can barely afford food, getting thrown out onto the street by your landlord because you were hospitalized and couldn't pay your rent, internalizing the idea that if you can't work your life is a burden on others, working day in and day out in a passionless job for petty tyrants that disrespect you for years on end, working in insafe environments that causes injury or illness... This stuff isn't hypothetical. I've lost people to this. It's not some tragic accident, it's a system that doesn't value human life working as intended, and as a result people become beaten down and hopeless.

[@highecuador1873]

@@AndrewFullerton yeah communism didn't do any of those things lol

[@invrl]

@AndrewFullerton Yeah, I'd much rather live in a society where my entire life is dictated by a group of people that I have never met. Where my house is a small room in a set of complexes. Where my dissent to the state causes my arrest and forced labor in gulags. Where instead of paying a landlord, I pay the government to lord over my life. That sounds like the most unstressful life ever. What made people more stressed in modern life wasn't capitalism, it was urbanization. Having villages and towns where everyone knows each other brings a sense of community. Being one out of a million, does not. But to say this would be to act as if every generation before the mass urbanization of homes had it easy. The truth is that stress is a part of life, everyone has to deal with it. It just manifests in different ways.

[@joaquinvideo2959]

@@invrlDidn't realize you were talking about communism till you said Gulag, had you not used a little russian I'd go another 6 words thinking I was reading a critique of capitalism. I think that says enough.

[@dorianrisse4079]

"All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*" aint that the fucking truth ! All i do now is try to convince myself that a change can be made, that it's not too late, that all of the god damn blood spilled by despots, dictators and tankies was not in vain but to show us our mistakes ! In every corner of my country i see how we are kept down, i see how the state refuses to solve problems that benefit them and not the citizens ! It's just so complicated to say with a straight face that there is a chance for a better future when international capital cant stop destroying everything it can for profit ! It's just difficult to see the potential light at the end of the tunnel, even the "incemental change" i hear so much about seems like a pipe dream ... Everything that could harm the profit of the "big boys" does not get the spotlight and the citizens seem only filled with hate for there fellow man and driven by nothing but self interest.

[@Ioperzu]

A change can be made, but don`t expect changing the world or a country. You can impact what you can see and touch in person on daily basis, you want a group of people that care for each other and don`t let anyone behind? Then build it, not hard to build a tight family or a tight community in a lifetime.

[@Солер-й9в]

Как же я тебя понимаю...

[@zackpumpkinhead8882]

I love that you can internalize both the fascist and communist thoughts. While Mazovian Socio-Economics rewards you for picking communist dialogue options, Revacholian Nationalhood actually _punishes_ you with low morale. So you can say a bunch of communist things, and keep your _vöws_ silent. Sounds like anyone you know?

[@Fuer64]

"Do you have any questions before we fire up the Big Communism Builder?" Pov: Germany right before smuggling Lenin back into russia

[@Chungskingi]

Workers of the world unite.

[@haly2D]

Cool edit comrade

[@ardabaser1349]

I love this game so much. The communist route was incredibly tragic despite the freaking moralists writing the story. You could definitely tell communism is a real thing in the game, no matter how surreal its aesthetics were portrayed to be. It definitely didn't get the faschism treatment. Besides, it is clear that society could build impossible structures with the power of communism, wdym?

[@deadrat5555]

About the "moralists writing the story" part - well, I actually believe the writer behind disco elysium is very much a leftist and a marxist. Just take a look at how different ideologies are presented in the game. Ultraliberals - greedy hustlers, Moralists - apathetic people with no opinions, Fascists - wömen and immigrants haters. Communism is the only ideology that is shown as a structural political thought and the writer tried (and succeeded imo) to show his own beliefs in a critical way

[@jonnyrango9920]

the writers were not moralist, they were true believers

[@ardabaser1349]

@@jonnyrango9920 They definitely were. I must have been ignorant when I initially left this comment.

[@yungangina3633]

still waiting on the " big Disco Elysium video. The greatest the world has ever seen."

[@JamrockHobo]

Honestly I didn't know how much time high-effort videos need. I put this montage together in one night. But I assure you it's too big to fail, so stay tuned :)

[@yungangina3633]

@@JamrockHobo word word, I alr know it’s fixing to be a banger

[@olegeronen]

Is it for real? I haven't played the game, but now I feel hyped 😆

[@JamrockHobo]

It's the only video game I always recommend to both gamers and non gamers. It's a real art. Also yes, 100% real game capture

[@alkuzkirill]

@@JamrockHobo there is also planescape torment, an older game which is similar to Disco Elysium, I would recommend it too

[@santiagogallego8695]

@@alkuzkirill yes but its not comunist (still good tho)

[@Chillerll]

What do you mean is it for real? Are you asking if he made this game up?

[@techissus7449]

@@santiagogallego8695 it's kinda is, considering the developers thanked Marx and Engels at the game awards

[@asneakylawngnome5792]

*sighs* Guess its time to play Disco Elysium for the 5th time. Legit fucking wrecked it’s announced there will never be a second one. Or if so, not done by the original creators.

[@inurokuwarz]

It's insane how the game predicted it's own fate. The Burgiose, afterall, are not human.

[@JamrockHobo]

To quote Joyce Messier: "Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead..."

[@amadeodelgado4511]

You - What does Communism smell like? Rhetoric - Failure

[@Ottrond]

cried so much. so good

[@TK-7193]

2:40 hold up, is that the voice of the knight that swore himself to sister freide in the ds3 painted world?

[@lostfan10000]

They sound the same but they are unfortunately not. Chris Lines voices the Deserter and Steven Hartley voices Sir Vilhelm.

[@TK-7193]

@@lostfan10000 ah thanks

[@scamunism]

@@lostfan10000i dream to possess this depth of knowledge

[@lostfan10000]

@@scamunism It is all but a linked in search away.

[@SiggyTundra]

This video is how i feel when im playing a minecraft smp and nobody wants to live communally with me i dont want to just play glorified singleplayer

[@JamrockHobo]

I'm far from your world but I respect you sharing it haha

[@SiggyTundra]

It's a struggle out here

[@billy6044]

@@SiggyTundrabrother, I will build the villager trading hall, and u can get us wood!

[@ThorianSaga]

Its hard commrade. To build the perfect villager commune without the temptation of colonialism, exploit the librarian and fletcher labor, gulag'd the iron golems and force breeding them

[@Youtubeisntlettingmeuseczech]

"Lidé, měl jsem vás rád. Bděte!"

[@MEASUREHEAD.]

COME TALK TO ME HARRY

[@Jetstoanywhere]

Against the wall comrade

[@flaminggarbage8241]

Such a beautiful game

[@duyanhbui5386]

yeah should have play the int cop for commusnist fuck me

[@joedatius]

Disco Elysium teaches you that fundamentally communism would be the best hope for humanity but the reality is that much of humanity does not seek hope.

[@Hugo1749-g8q]

communism is the inevitable destiny of all nations, the proletariat is the last class in history, there is no other option even if you or I want to

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

Why was I recommend this

[@JW-bx8ss]

Find your comrades, get organised! The revolution won't happen on KZbin

[@Rocinante0489]

True and real

[@deffientllynotjalenbutler1736]

Perfect

[@rogerroger2377]

bro kim actually called me a fascist, misogynist, far right and racist, dayum🙏

[@windwind3170]

Counterpoint: 1.00 Real.

[@GarboTheGreat]

This is another reason why I love this game. I went nowhere near the communism route of the game, but still thoroughly enjoyed learning about the history of revachol and putting the pieces together. I played moralist the whole way through, and it is still interesting how almost everyone else I have talked to about this game went communist.

[@fishsteakyelk341]

The game is essentially a love letter to communism it was well known even before the developers straight up admitted it at a reward show. It’s critical towards communist ideology but also those who follow it, vanguardists, Left Communists, Defeatists, all sorts. The game itself is saying that previous attempts at achieving communism were flawed but ultimately did a lot of good and the power of capital and the bourgeoisie did everything they could to violently erase any chance for a chance for a liberated humanity. Just looking around the city, it’s absolutely shit the Union is corrupt as hell, ruins are everywhere, the cops are shitheads, and a company can easily send armed mercs to suppress a strike and get away with murder. The Deserter and some other history in the city brings up just how violent the landing of the coalition (aka NATO) was and how many they murdered to maintain bourgeois power. The game itself is saying that we should be critical of communism but also learn about it and how previous attempts at achieving it worked but also telling us that revolution won’t be allowed by the powers of Capital that they will violently suppress any attempt even if it means destroying a entire nation. “Who calls a operation against 50 million Death Blow?” But unlike the Deserter’s defeatism we see in the city that there’s still struggle and conflict between workers and capitalists. The conditions are still there for class struggle and revolution for as long as capitalism exists there will always be a class exploited and suffers the most for the benefit of a few who are more often born into it. Capitalism creates the conditions that lead to it’s own destruction whether it be because of the myth of infinite growth driving profit destroying our planet, or by falling due to the workers finally rising up. Overall Disco Elysium is definitely a left wing game and I would even call it a communist game but one that also asks us to learn from the past attempts and remember at how Capitalism responded. “UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI” One day I will return to your side Girl Child Revolution.

[@HolyDiverOfTheRedSea]

Uhhhhhhh YOU CANT ESCAPE!!

[@authaire]

This hits a lot harder now what with Cuba and all. 😢

[@alexjeffrey3981]

*glancing at the USSR* feel like pure shit, just want her back

[@timothytosser288]

Nah ussr was hell you tankie

[@faunt07]

@@timothytosser288 , how you to know? Can you even imagine what humankind achieved just because USSR existed?

[@mattl1862]

@@faunt07 The Holodomor and Katyn Forest Massacre?

[@LuzikArbuzik77]

​@@mattl1862 you forgot about Chernobyl Powerplant Disaster. And enslaving whole Eastern Europe and Central Asia. And the Aral Sea Disaster. And destroying Russia itself as a country. And years of political opression, killings and imprisonments. And many, many more things. God, I hate tankies.

[@faunt07]

@@mattl1862 , Holodomor was not a thing, it was a natural disaster, a famine. Сrop failure was in western ukraine toom, but at that time it wasn't part of the USSR. At that time, famine was in a large part of the USSR. And if you use term Hohlodomor you mean that the famine was intentional and that's simply not true. And if look closer to russian history there were dozens famines long before the revolution. Do you know who first said about the so-called Katyn massacre? Nazi intelligence. Do you really belive nazi propaganda? But i have to say that there was a part of polish captives who were sentenced to death by soviets. And do you know why? Because of soviet-polish war, these people were responsible for the deaths of Soviet POWs during the war.

[@JamrockHobo]

New video on Disco Elysium's lore just dropped: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ_PlIaOptaofMk

[@ZacharyShilling]

0:08 where is that couch in game?

[@Filo_UnderSky]

It's one of the flats. You get there in communist vision quest

[@mono4643]

In Soviet Russia. Game montages you!

[@luxill0s]

montage is a largely Russian invention, so you’re actually pretty right using that meme format :)

[@JamrockHobo]

We owe a lot of avantgarde styles to early Sowjet artists. Also, Kurvitz (DE creator) himself mentioned how Tretjakow (Sowjet author and futurist) was an inspiration for the game.

[@Chillerll]

Leave it to the russians to reinvent fascism 3 times in 100 years.

[@lmao.3661]

ah, if only it was this cool in real life

[@mikabakker1]

While not a fan of communism I really like how you made this. Really catched that vibe there

[@cassielina9887]

Song?

[@julianhorodyski6414]

stan tho

[@Mooseshovel]

"What does communism smell like?" "Failure."