Class Wargames Explained

Class Wargames
Founder:	Richard Barbrook, Fabian Tompsett
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Key People:	Richard Barbrook, Ilze Black, Lucy Blake, Mark Copplestone, Rod Dickinson, Stefan Lutschinger, James Moulding, Fabian Tompsett, Alex Veness, Elena Vorontsova

Class Wargames is a situationist ludic-science group based in London. Founded by Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett in 2007, the group has since reproduced Guy Debord's Le Jeu de la Guerre and proceeded to tour Europe, Asia and South America.^[1] In contrast to the electronic version of Debord's game, created by the Radical Software Group,^[2] Class Wargames is based on a real rather than digital version of the Game of War and allows for convivial interaction through which anyone can become a situationist.^[3]

Meaningful Votes: The Brexit Simulation was a wargame designed by Richard Barbrook to help understand the dynamics of the political factions in United Kingdoms in regards to the Brexit referendum.^[4]

Publications

• Barbrook, Richard (2014). Class Wargames: Ludic Subversion Against Spectacular Capitalism (paperback ed.). London: Minor Compositions.
• Barbrook, Richard and Tompsett, Fabian (2012) Class Wargames Presents Guy Debord's The Game of War (paperback ed.). London: Unpopular Books.
• Lutschinger, Stefan (2014) (ed.) Klassenkampfspiele (paperback ed.). London: Unpopular Books.

References

1. Web site: Class Wargames: Ludic subversion in the bureaucratic society of controlled consumption | Class Wargames.
2. Web site: Kriegspiel -- About: Overview.
3. Web site: Institute of Network Cultures | How to be Modern: A Situationist social democrat's adventures in radio, gaming and the internet.
4. Web site: We wargamed the last days of Brexit. Here's what we found out. Cooper. Luke. 23 July 2019. openDemocracy. 2019-08-21.