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Crystal James
Crystal James

in reply to Szuja

I mean one could argue that as a genre Cyberpunk has an absurd amount of of themes and arguments and ideas. Though one cannot deny that on a fundamental level it's heavily anti-capitalist in all ways. Even fundamentally the usage of "punk" in the name already indicates this sort of view considering the OG punks and their weird position in opposition to capitalist system, but also lacking the utopianism of socialists.
Furthermore Cyberpunk is, or at least is considered to be about this idea that advanced technology will lead to suffering as everyone will use it for the sake of profit and pleasure for themselves, which one could argue is basically a critique of the "Enlightened Self-Interest", which is arguably one of the fundamental principles in capitalist system. And it's not just based from some dislike of corporations separating them from capitalist system. Capitalism and it's enablement is always seen as something that always ends up in corporate Dystopias and endless suffering.

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