Like communism, it looks forward. It's associated with "The New", the decade that brought Revachol disco. It doesn't seem pro-Pale, the way moralism and fascism tend to be. But the game feels pretty hostile to ultraliberalism. Then again, it's not exactly gentle with communism either.
Maybe it's a dialectic thing? Unity of opposing forces, progress through the resolution of contradictions? The Pale driven back as communists and ultraliberals fight over the future, birthing something better through the fight?
The "new" it celebrates is just a competitive process for translating all other values, ideas and creations into the basest commodities to be consumed.
It is built on the assumption that no other values or progress are possible beyond accumulation according to the most conservative, universally accepted capitalist terms.
No new progress is possible - only new products. The tension is whether Ultraliberalism can erase real progress and convert it into shallow consumerism faster than historical materialism can develop new, authentic values.
How do you think ultraliberalism fits into this?
Like communism, it looks forward. It's associated with "The New", the decade that brought Revachol disco. It doesn't seem pro-Pale, the way moralism and fascism tend to be. But the game feels pretty hostile to ultraliberalism. Then again, it's not exactly gentle with communism either.
Maybe it's a dialectic thing? Unity of opposing forces, progress through the resolution of contradictions? The Pale driven back as communists and ultraliberals fight over the future, birthing something better through the fight?
Ultraliberalism is just nihilism.
The "new" it celebrates is just a competitive process for translating all other values, ideas and creations into the basest commodities to be consumed.
It is built on the assumption that no other values or progress are possible beyond accumulation according to the most conservative, universally accepted capitalist terms.
No new progress is possible - only new products. The tension is whether Ultraliberalism can erase real progress and convert it into shallow consumerism faster than historical materialism can develop new, authentic values.