A few weeks ago I watched my 15 year old nephew play this game. He explained that he had just killed and robbed another player. Confused by the flagrant immorality of the hero I began asking questions "What happens next?", "Why do you need money?", "What is the overall goal?". He simply responded "You need more money to buy better guns so you can fight off attackers and survive."

Thats when it hit me: can you picture someone who who is entertained by the sort of video game you describe getting anything out of revolutionary literature? I certainly can't. Just from the description it looks like a new hobbyhorse for capitalism in its endless quest to prove that humans are intrinsically evil--that "man's heart is evil from his youth." It appears to me to be a reactionary's idea of a school for fascism- this is how you build your own fascist movement. First you steal material things, then you use the money to buy guns, and then you use the guns to shoot anyone who tries to oppose you, and through the course of it you become more powerful. I don't think it will actually work- either as a how-to or as an underhanded scheme to brainwash young men into becoming nazis-but if I were a right winger it would seem to me that it was worth a shot; to destroy democracy by turning everyone into a fascists by means of video games. As I indicated earlier, I think it's more a case of capitalist-centered entertainment making anything else look interesting by comparison. It's a series of direct cause-and-effect events. As my stepson said, the job is just to stay alive as long as you can, which is a pretty good description of late stage capitalist living at its core. You're going to die eventually, so the issue becomes the purely fatalistic pursuit of entirely pointless and futile longevity.