provopoli

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provopoli (subtitled Who owns the city? ) is a 1972 to 1980 by Horatio publisher and the game Club produced parlor game whose name is a corruption of the popular game Monopoly is. At provopoli, a blue group (the representatives of the ruling power) competes against a red group (which wants to change the existing situation). It thus refers to the 1968 movement and the attempts at social upheaval at that time. The aim of the red group is to enforce their ideology with the help of demonstrations, occupations, assassinations, blockades or the liberation of prisoners - the aim of the blue group is to prevent this as far as possible. The aim of the game is to give the player a more critical way of thinking about existing power relations.

The game was added to the list of writings harmful to young people in June 1980 at the request of the Bavarian State Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs . The ministry justified the request by stating that the game was suitable "to confuse children and young people socially and ethically (disorientate)" and "to endanger morally". In addition, it was established in the proceedings that the game had "anti-subversive and terrorist content". In addition, "hostage-taking, the use of bombs, the erection of barricades, and breaking into offices [...] are encouraged. Furthermore, this game does not encourage critical discussion of democratic forms of society, but rather rejects democracy in general, and therefore a terrorist struggle for social change," which is unconstitutional, propagated. " In 2005, after a 25-year ban, the game was removed from the list of fonts harmful to minors and is therefore likely to be sold to young people again today.

Richard David Precht mentions provopoli in his book Lenin Only Came to Lüdenscheid , in which he depicts his youth in a socialist parental home in the FRG in the 1970s.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to game check [1] .
  2. ↑ All quotations in this paragraph according to the German Historical Museum : Internet entry for inventory no. AK 99/779 .
  3. ^ According to Libertad.online: [2] .

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