ABSTRACT
My old friend from Oxford days always tended to bubble with schemes and enthusiasm, but never more so than when he appeared in my SoHo loft with a mock-up copy of his new political board game, Class Struggle. We could educate the American public and become rich at the same time! People know, instinctively, that what is good for General Motors is unlikely to be good for America, people know that Big Business robs the poor to help the rich, that Uncle Sam taxes the middle class but not the corporate class, that Big Business tolerates small business until its ideas are fully developed—and then steals them. But they can’t act on their own best intuitions, because the media and the educators, especially economists and political scientists, confuse them. Academic flunkies fill their heads with free markets and efficiency, pluralism and voter choice, until they forget that when money talks, democracy walks. So let s give them a helping hand, a board game, fun to play, that will remind people of what they already know!
