#nir's brainworms

drawing is literally the most communist thing you can do with your hands and nobody talks about it. you take the means of production, which is like a pencil or a finger on a screen, and you just make something because you want it to exist, not because it's profitable, not because it's productive under capitalism, just because you had a vision of a little guy and now he's real. zero alienation, maximum use-value. you own the whole supply chain from brain to paper. there's no boss, no deadline, no scarcity, you just sit there redistributing vibes onto a page. and then you post it online for free because art belongs to the masses, obviously. every doodle is a tiny insurrection against the commodification of joy. you're not a content creator, you're a cultural worker seizing the aesthetic means of production and giving it away for zero dollars! that's literally just mutual aid with shapes. draw whatever, post it, destroy the market!!

Dude!! Silksong is literally communist and it's not even subtle. Think about it: there was no release date, which meant that there was no privileged class of players who got it first. We were all equally waiting, there was no hierarchy, no early access for the rich! Hornet wears red, and she's basically a needle worker fighting against a fallen kingdom that collapsed because one guy hoarded all the light. The whole plot is just... "let's rebuild a society where silk belongs to everyone," not just the weavers' guild. We won't pay for DLCs, we'll just get more areas. Because the community needs them. It's literally a game about collective suffering and shared hope...

Something else that hit me in the head recently: Minecraft is literally the most communist game ever made and we just don't talk about it. You spawn with nothing, classless, naked, and the entire world is just... yours? Ours. You punch a tree and that tree didn't belong to anyone, and now the wood belongs to everyone building the base. Villagers hoard emeralds like little green capitalists but you don't even need them, you can just walk away and grow your own carrots. In creative mode it's fully automated luxury gay space communism!! Infinite resources, no hunger, you just build a beautiful world because you want to. The whole game loop is "from each according to their mining, to each according to their crafting needs." You don't pay for expansions, the updates just arrive, free, for everyone, forever. The only boss is a dragon hoarding an entire dimension and you kill her not for loot that only one person gets, but to open the End for the whole server. It's a game about taking care of a village, building communal farms, and realizing that a hopper system is just a planned economy with item filters. How did we miss this