Class Struggle (board game)

Class Struggle is a board game for two to six players designed by New York University politics professor Bertell Ollman and published in 1978 by Avalon Hill. The game was built to teach players about Marxist political theory by having them compete as representatives of different social classes, moving around a board that models the economic and political relationships Ollman argued structure capitalist society. Its format and pacing were loosely compared at the time to the board game Monopoly, though its subject matter and win conditions are explicitly ideological rather than purely commercial. The game reflected a broader wave of educational and message driven board games published in the 1970s that used familiar game mechanisms to introduce players to academic or political ideas outside a classroom setting.