Preparation: Revolution or Revolution? – Metro: Exodus

On the wire city of Tallinn (sic!), Hello. There were three things, about the plans to touch on which I spoke in different places: this is a stubborn analysis of Metro Exodus, this is the most possible social system on post -coalipaliptic land and this is the topic of revolutions, coups and their differences. And while these three topics slowly reached the condition and crystallized in my head, I fell into the head of the Caspian in the subway. Therefore, we bring artbaths and prepare to cover the whole forest at once at once.

This gun will shoot soon,
Walks a shaking of Aurora!
TO. Semin and Janni Rodari, “Aurora”

1. Briefly about the chapter
Initially, I planned to write about the problem of choice, based on it, however, that the moments of choice themselves are that their consequences in the metro series are quite non -obvious, and for that topic there were much more demonstrative exhibits. But the same moments that I wanted to touch on in that article, with some defending, began to play with completely different notes.

So, “Caspian”. Since the names of the chapters in the outcome are divided into seasons and places in which the Aurora crew arrives, it is not difficult to guess that the actions in the chapter will unfold at the bottom of the dried Caspian Sea. Upon arrival at the place, the heroes discover two camps divided into two camps: nephews, which are led by a certain baron, apparently, is a former bump from a local pre-war oil company;and those whom they call “shaggy” – Mongol-Tatars Kazakhs working as a slaves for oil workers.

Here it is, the citadel EvilDemocracyMikhalkov oilmen

Among the local Kazakhs there are a number of persons whom the current state of affairs is absolutely not suitable. They know how to fight, know where to get a weapon, ideologically charged and ready to act. However, despite everything – at first even very successful – attempts to knock down brothers on the rebellion, Kazakhs are in no hurry. Largely thanks to the idea of ​​the baron – a holy flame acting for the locals in the role of a deity. Well, a competently delivered repressive apparatus-where without him?

Viva la Revolucion! – Sings the guitar.

In the course of the case, Artem, as a real active Muscovite, manages to cause good and apply justice to a sufficiently large number of local ones, but there is a place in the head of the Caspian, in which we are given a completely peaceful and neugubmit atmosphere to talk with the baron himself and listen to his comments on his comments. I found him on the way to the final of the chapter, so he deigned to comment on everything that I managed to do. Then I shot him, of course, but first of all at the request of the local hermit, and not for the sake of universal justice – the course will not change from the change of persons in the radio room.

I want to notice, https://grand-mondial.co.uk/ by the way, that the outcome is acutely lacking in the normal dialogue system.
No, this is a big plus that the interlocutor can be shot by breaking his fiery speech at a glance, but sometimes you want to squeeze out only a read replica, and not the whole interlocutor.

The chapter ends with storming the oil tower and the overthrow of the baron. Aurora is serving, and Gul remains to rake things with the oil workers and lead his people to an uprising against the enslavers, and then to the bright future. Communism on Letov, in general. Grace.

2. Karabas-Barabas Compassionately
And so, let’s go in order. Now there will be a little nudot, but this moment is necessary to clarify. I adhere to the theory (not my own, not so strong) that socially economic formations in the world are changing along with scientific and technological progress and the development of production forces. Such history knows how Professor Woland said, exactly drinking: primitive-communal system, slavery, feudalism, capitalism and, as they say, is not the most successful attempt to communism.

For example, the transition from the primitive communal system to slavery, which gave us at all (!) All (!) civilization of antiquity (Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and another Lysy), is impossible without the accumulation of a sufficient number of people who would have produced a sufficient amount of product. Accordingly, it is impossible without the development of labor productivity at least to such a level when one person feeds a few more with his labor-therefore, it is impossible without sufficient development of tools and at least some military affairs (slaves themselves will not go to service, everyone understands here). In total, this gives the number of resources, firstly, sufficient to maintain the lives of all this mass to the people, and secondly, for the further development of society: the construction of cities, the creation of infrastructure, the maintenance of the army and other, and other.

This transition, the transition from one socio-economic formation to another I call the revolution. This is the concept that we will operate today. With an insufficient level of development of any of these factors, the revolution is impossible. In this regard, slavery is the simplest example. Even hundreds of slaves cannot be grabbed for yourself if you are not able to maintain at least their self -production – they will die. And even if you find yourself, but as a result you will go out to zero, you can’t even afford some luxury-where does it come from, if everything that comes from your slaves, with the exception of your own food, and leaves them?

Here you have a small bike. There was a character in history, his name was easily – Vova Ulyanov. He once founded one little-known state, which in his opinion would be the next step in the development of socio-economic relations. Apart from the Paris Commune, Vova was such the first. And now, having implemented a number of political measures, he realized that politicians are not enough, that he got the economic base not from the past, but from the beforehand formation. Then Vova introduced a new economic policy, which, in its essence, was a more toothless option for the economy of the past system (not before, but the past). And only after that we created an atomic weapon and flew into space. Morality: Even such fiery revolutionaries as Vova Ulyanov are not able to compete with the great and terrible economic basis.

This follows: the revolution is an objective process, and it is impossible to manage it. You can put it in her head of a strong leader or useless clown, but both of them can not cope with such an animal alone – neither accelerate him, nor slow down, nor even disrupt.

3. Caspian slave owners
Here we have a slightly different, but not critical case: a sufficient number of people and, in properly developed tools, the inhabitants of the Caspian Sea went from their ancestors. There are few bandits, but they are well armed and excellent. In addition, they have an advantage – they know how to handle equipment and use transport. There are more Kazakhs, but thanks to their lag in science and technology, the bandits click them as they want.

Boys, ku. By the way, visually the Caspian to crazy Max is just like sho pipets. Even a shame somehow.

Another important point. Caspian location in the subway – this, I repeat, desert. There is nowhere to hide – in the caves mutants, there is nothing to eat there – nothing grows, they give its own weight in gold for drinking water. The only hints of at least some civilization are the bandits camps and their infrastructure. There is simply no sense to escape from their places with these “shaggy”: they will not go far on their two, but the oilmen will catch up with them without any problems;They have nothing to fight back – their firearms are disappeared, but the bandits can be envied;They do not know where to go – too, at the same time, their enslavers have established trading (the most important, because they are about money) contacts outside their territories. It seems like a hopeless position, the revolution is the only way out.

In this regard, the words of Baron, who commented, as I said, were very indicative, all my actions. They stole drinking water – slaves will receive less, they opened the cells – they will catch up and put him back, sent the agitator to their places – the locals will hand it over themselves, the first. Moreover, overseers are recruited from local ones, in the best traditions of ancient Rome and, in principle, all sensible slave systems. Вспоминайте Джанго Освобожденного: «Что этот ниггер себе позволяет?”

Oh or? Let’s talk. Suppose we freed the unfortunate, killed all the bandits, sat down on the water and oil and began to think, what would be next. In the game itself, right inside it, it repeatedly repeats that in this particular place the bandits are the least-everyone else moved to rob and kill someone. After the Caspian, by the way, sitting on a train by the walkie-talkie, you can hear negotiations of the surviving oil workers, and something does not seem to decide to tie up. Suppose, given this circumstance, the local Che Guevara in a skirt will decide to teach “shaggy” to use the firearms and travel to their Kolymags so that they can repulse the returned owners. In principle, this is not even an assumption, but a fact – she will do so if she wants to live. Suppose even they will repel.

It is also very significant, by the way: the baron is not an axis here, and in its place there are a number of very ambitious competitors.

Further something? The farm must somehow establish. We need to return to a peaceful life, build contacts by others, make them admit that Honduras is a republic, we do not need a king. Given that, judging by the materials found in the game, slaves are a fairly important and running product in those places, one of the neighbors will immediately try. At least, to take the place of oil workers and trade slaves already, in their favor. What are the forces of the neighbors is unknown, but if we take into account that neither the oil workers themselves at that time went to them at that time, nor the neighbors to the oil industry, preferring trading, we can assume that there was at least parity between them. Well, since “shaggy” (bald as a knee, actually, but let it be “shaggy”), so, since no one gave them weapons, excluding the chosen ones-the most faithful minions of the bandits, I must say-those who come to their place will be at least more experienced. Well, okay, let’s say, they will get off – the area is really difficult, it is not easy to fight there.

And so, imagine. The desert, the area, which was first cried out by the world, and then the civil war, the small number of survivors. Survivors, moreover, will be able to argue themselves in militaryness with oil workers – especially if they have to fight off their neighbors. Add here possible xenophobia, generated by not too successful experience of communication with visitors. My bet: After a very short time, “shaggy” will become slaveholders themselves. This will require the situation, since they cannot recover from the war without extremely cheap labor, and the neighbors will be demanded by the same, because in exchange for slaves and the same oil they will be able to receive what they can’t get in the desert – food, for example.

What is called, health resort and granary.

Yes, from the point of view of the characters inside the game, this venture is a revolution. This is the struggle against inequality, with injustice, with the wrong, in their opinion, the structure of society. However, in fact, the requests of slaveholders in those conditions themselves will become slaveholders, and injustice will simply change the addressee. The very society itself will not cease to be slave -owned, because these are objective circumstances.

4. Crubbing
Well, the fact that the creators of the metro series with the gunshot method are not familiar, I think it was clear yet with the analysis of the confrontation between the Nazis and the Communists in Moscow basements. In principle, I do not even ask them from them, although, of course, it would be nice. However, the fact that they, being quite honest and talented guys, are able to build a picture so that we can already draw independent conclusions, worthy of respect. Although, I have a much more speaking example for such a case. Yes, guys, Remember Me! Total analysis of everything that I met there: from gameplay and visual to embedded ideas and meanings. In this place, at this time, in a week.
Tallinn out. Live, Die, Repeat.