Monopoly, it would become one of the most popular board games in the world, with more than 275 million games sold. It also became a symbol of the very sort of aggressive capitalism Magie hoped to ...

It is hard not to romanticize Harry Braverman. A Depression-era metalworker and committed socialist who in 1974, two years ...

Players with nothing still would have room in the Poor House. ... To a capitalist success A forgotten story Monopoly, inspired by the Landlord’s Game and patented and commercialized by Parker ...

Monopoly is one of the best-selling board games ... a very different one that promotes a very different image of capitalism. (And with two sets of starkly different rules.) That story shows ...

Anspach had created a riff on Darrow’s game called Anti-Monopoly, which critiqued oil cartels and other capitalist monopolies. The game became popular in San Francisco, where Anspach lived ...

Lenin believed that the consolidation associated with monopoly capitalism would prepare the way for the socialization of production through the state. Indeed, he goes so far as to argue that under ...

Monopoly, the classic board game that originated more than 100 years ago as an anti-capitalist critique of wealth inequality, is getting a fresh coat of paint and some interesting new features.

Listen to Throughline on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Monopoly has been one of the best-selling board games in the United States for nearly a century now. In fact, sales actually went up during the ...