Does ME:A promote imperialist capitalism?

Feb 21, 2017 6:47:46 GMT ryerye17 said:

So....a bunch of guys from a predominant galactic power travel to uncharted locations to build colonies, mine resources, and kill the native population. Gee, why does that sound familiar?

It sounds very much like empire-building when the Europeans decided to conquer the world by invading other nations, ultimately impoverishing them, and building settlements all over. It was a race for these countries on who can build the most and who can build the fastest. Conquest wasn't always military-based; trade-embargoes, political sabotage, and cultural/religious dominance was also the name of the game.

As a radical Marxist, I find it unsettling to find a game celebrating themes of dominance, invasion, and conquest. All because the Galactic council supports and promotes the idea of colonization and capitalism, now the entire universe will be enslaved.

Do you believe that Mass Effect promotes capitalism? 

This one feels like a stretch, so a couple things to keep in mind.

1) The Andromeda Initiative did not come to "kill the native population."  In fact, I can't think of a way it could have known there would even be a native population.

2) The empire-building Europeans analogy doesn't quite hold water when you consider the fact that, unless the Andromeda Initiative has some way to dramatically shorten the 600 year trip between galaxies and the resources to make said trip multiple times, there will be no material connection between the Milky Way and Andromeda.  At most they would have a handful of QECs that may not even work anymore.  This was a one way trip.  Difficult to build an empire on that foundation.

3) I can't remember the exact number of people involved with the Andromeda Initiative (my brain is saying around 100,000), but I have a hard time believing that the amount of people involved could conquer anything.  Let alone an already somewhat established and colonized star cluster.

So, yes, Mass Effect obviously promotes the SJWCapitalist Agenda.