The author of Dungeon Defense is communist?

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So I am doing a research paper on communism (pro), and I remembered some good quotes from Dungeon Defense I was planning to use, such as "All of history until now has been the history of class strife." Then it dawned on me. Since this is a communist quote (originally used by Karl Marx), then why did it appear in a Korean novel? I usually read only Chinese novels so I thought it was normal till it hit me a second ago.
So...is the author of Dungeon Defense a South Korean communist or did he just find it really fitting to use that in his novel?
Edit: Some say it is just a single quote, but if you read the novel, the mc basically crowns himself the "king of peasants"... 
 
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You don't have to be a communist to model governing policies after a socialistic ideal. 
 
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If we went by disney logic, then that guy is one of the leaders of the communist party in south korea. 
 
  • #6
He was slandered by poster....

But seriously... If you're nitpicking, there's gotta be something bad in all the novels here. Racist, mysogonist, atheist,whatever.... But usually whomever points it out is the one that has problems.

It's all in your mind bro... 
 
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I mean if you are going to look at it like that the phrase could be taken from a lot of places, even the bible has quotes about slaves, classes, and poor people. 
 
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You do realize that the idea behind communism is that everyone gets an equal share of the pie as everything is publically owned, right?

The instant a leader (king) is mentioned, a different political system comes into play. 
 
  • #9
You're implying that anyone quoting Marx is communist? Wait... you're not even doing that. You're implying that anyone who writes a fictional character that quotes Marx is communist?
I've read Dungeon Defense and he doesn't want communism let alone try to put it into practice. He's just using what he's got. 
 
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...your paper is doomed.  You can't distinguish between what communism is supposed to be and what has to be done to make the system work in real life.  In RL, it's called communism but with corruption and dissenters, it's not truly communism anymore.  It's the bastard child of something else. 
 
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Most Communist countries have devolved into Dictatorships, often not very long into their runs.  Which is highly authoritarian, and often horrible for the masses, they are supposedly sharing and caring for.  

But, the original point is, a quote used in a piece of literature does not imply a person's political beliefs. 
 
  • #12
Sigh, are you reading the same novel I am? Or just not interpreting it?

If we remember history, Russia which participated in WW1 ended up leaving early in the war. The large amount of casualties in WW1 created a weakness in Russia allowing the communists to use it as leverage and get support for their revolution against nobility. Thus, Russia had to bail out of WW1 because it risked collapsing from the inside.

What the MC in DD is doing is similar, yes. It's not about being communist or not, it is called strategy. There are multiple human countries he is fighting against. He is trying to spark something similar to a communist revolution in those countries to weaken the power of nobility so that he can take over the countries easier.

It ain't about whether MC or author believes in communism or not. He is simply using it to weaken his enemies.


But rest assured, in our world, the final form of government will be a form of communism  
 
  • #13
Not exactly, since every country that has had communist governments had a leader. If there is no leader, that would be anarchy, which doesn't really work out. And the word king is interchangeable with other names for leaders 
 
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