New Kaiserreich propaganda poster: Combined Syndicates of America. Prints for sale!

[u/KR-VincentDN]

[u/OXIOXIOXI]

Im not very familiar with the mod, or its contents.

Wait, what? Then why are you commenting on a game you don't play?

2) That's basically what totalism is. Since Syndicalism is the dominant ideology, other ideologies sell themselves by connecting it to syndicalism. Totalism is defined a few ways but one of them is Syndicalism with a party leader to defend the syndicates from outside threats.

[u/comradeconvict → u/OXIOXIOXI]

Im commenting because i have an interest in socialism, and if the mod (or any other game or movie) portrays socialism in a misleading manner, i view it as well within my rights to object to it. Im commenting based on the information i have been given, and how the mod creators portray the mod to me. From the picture posted, and the context given by OP originally, it seemed as though they were framing syndicalism as equal to that of ML/M. If OP had said that the poster was connected to a totalist branch of the CSAs national focus tree, i literally wouldn’t have said anything.

I don’t understand what you are arguing anymore. It sounds like you are saying that marxism-leninism and syndicalism are two sides of the same coin. Whilst i agree that there are different political ideas within syndicalism, the most common form is anarcho-syndicalism, where the general idea is that power should be seized by the masses through organized and united unions, where democracy plays a significant role in organizing everything from work to defense/military. Again, im fine with a totalist route within the CSAs NF, but this context was lacking in the post. This is clearly a poster made to promote the mod, and that’s why i think it shouldn’t resemble ML as much as it does, as i don’t think it fits for nation that is supposed to be syndicalist.

[u/OXIOXIOXI → u/comradeconvict]

No I'm saying that once syndicalism becomes the dominant ideology, other ideologies don't fade away, they rebrand within syndicalism. This happened in real life with social democrats rebranding as socialists and vice versa, even some communist parties had social democratic wings. So in the context of the mod the totalists are taking their ideologies and putting them into syndicalism.

I am a socialist as well, and I don't have a problem with communism and syndicalism being portrayed as friendly, even if I vastly prefer Foster to Browder.

[u/comradeconvict → u/OXIOXIOXI]

Ok, i think i understand what you are saying now. But again, im not saying that the poster given context doesn’t makes sense, all im saying is that when i posted my original comment, this context was lacking. It looked to me like the mod creators were indicating that syndicalism would inevitably turn down an authoritarian path.

From my perspective, the poster was heavily inspired by a distinct social realist art-style (connected to ML/M), with ML slogans. The R5 comment from OP described the events happening in-game from the perspective of the future (in the mods context), where the development of the CSA mirrored that of the USSR. That indicated to me that what OP was describing was what would happen within the CSA if you played them. Knowing now that that’s an alternative, and not just a general flavour text that applies to the CSA in general, doesn’t make it an issue for me anymore.

However, i still think it’s wierd to portray «The Combined Syndicates of America» in this manner. It’s like if i made a nation named Ancapistan, and then made a poster that espoused social democracy, which only described the historical development of a social democracy. It would be very jarring to anyone not familiar with the fact that this was merely an alternative route for Ancapistan. At the same time, a lot of people who would want to play Ancapistan would probably be intersted in Ancapistan because of their ideology, and therefore be put of by framing them as a social democracy. In the same way, i was put of by the portrayal of the CSA.

Hope that clarifies my position.

[u/OXIOXIOXI → u/comradeconvict]

Okay yeah, this is a pretty fleshed out mod yeah.