Post 1203296 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #1203296 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
       2018-11-14T18:36:28Z
       
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       Sonic the Hedgehog's main antagonists in the narrative and the metatextual analysis are mustachioed industrialists, with Dr. Eggman as a scifi robber baron like Rockefeller, and Mario as an industrialized proletarian communist, with clear Stalin iconography.
       
 (DIR) Post #1203297 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
       2018-11-14T18:38:07Z
       
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       Eggman destroys the environment to create machines which turn natural resources into further machines, an obvious overproduction crisis, while Mario as a Stalin standin, perpetuates the same societal structures he seeks to stand against (symbolically: saving the princess)
       
 (DIR) Post #1203298 by thebestpatrick@mastodon.social
       2018-11-14T18:50:41Z
       
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       When Mario becomes more powerful, he does so by "growing", damaging him reduces his size, he is the industrializing society. Mario's score depends upon the collection of coins, perpetuating the capitalist economy.Sonic does not grow in size as he becomes more powerful, damage scatters his rings, which can be fully recollected to unify his power once more, a decentralized, anarchist model. Sonic's score depends upon speed, skilful navigation of a natural environment, and destruction of machines