In Ruthless: Monopoly’s Secret History, writer/director Stephen Ives not only explores what the game Monopoly tells us about our economic system, but takes us behind the scenes to reveal its surprising origins as a piece of political agitprop, chronicling the courageous, real-world trustbuster behind the game who challenged and exposed the United States’ corporate behemoth in a David versus Goliath courtroom struggle of epic proportions. But who would have thought that the same framework could also be brought to bear on the most popular board game in history? “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas.” Theoreticians have applied Marx and Engels’s concept to analyses of literature, theater, cinema, academia, punditry, and more.
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