Meet Assassin's Creed Syndicate's Historical Figure Squad

I'm so happy to have no interest in buying an AC game for the first time in years.

Totally 100% into AC's brand of dumb historical shoe-horning. Karl Marx telling you to capture 5 outposts so the working class can upgrade your sword while Charles Dickens has you chasing down pages of A Tale Of Two Cities b/c birds stole them.

I'm slightly offended by this and I'm not entirely sure why.

Yo Dawg, I herd you like Historical Figure Squads, so i put a Historical Figure Squad in your Historical Figure Squad game so you can Historical Figure Squad.

I love how this series has just become historical fanfiction. <3

Well, he did suggest people should rise up and claim equality rather than just wish for it, but the problem has always been who leads the new state after the revolution. This is exactly what happened in Russia during WW1. The mob destroys the old Tsarist regime, and then you have a power vacuum that allows manipulative people to take over and set up a new regime.

On the other hand, look at something like Star Trek, where they're basically living in a socialist world where work is not done for money, but for what you're interested in or believe in, because technology has made traditional models of employment and power structures obsolete.

Given the energy problems global society is likely to face this century, that DOES sound like a rose-tinted and idealistic view, but then to me, the idea that the present economic system will work in our favour in the long-term is also unlikely.