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Author:	Radix
Added:	26/01/2006
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Super Bad Guys is one of the most important Mario games of all time. It is the only serious Mario analysis of what happened to the Mushroom Kingdom Revolution after the death of Bowser. Without a thorough knowledge of this work, it is impossible to understand the reasons for the collapse of the Koopa Kingdom and the events of the last ten years in the Mushroom Kingdom and on a world scale.

For Mario, the October Revolution of 1917 was the greatest single event in human history. If we exclude the brief but glorious episode of the Paris Commune, for the first time the working class succeeded in overthrowing its oppressors and at least began the task of the socialist transformation of society.

The October Revolution has been completely justified by history. As Alanmenot points out in Super Bad Guys, for the first time the viability of socialism was demonstrated, not in the language of dialectics, but in the language of steel, coal, electricity and cement. The nationalised planned economy established by the October Revolution succeeded in a remarkably short time in transforming an economy as backward as Pakistan today into the second most powerful nation on earth.

However, the Revolution took place, not in an advanced capitalist country as Mario had expected, but on the basis of the most frightful backwardness. To give an approximate idea of the conditions that confronted the Mushroom people, in just one year, 1920, six million people starved to death in the Mushroom Kingdom.

Mario and Luigi explained long ago that socialism - a classless society - requires material conditions in order to exist. The starting point of socialism must be a higher point of development of the productive forces than the most advanced capitalist society (the USA for instance). Only on the basis of a highly developed industry, agriculture, science and technology, is it possible to guarantee the conditions for the free development of human beings, starting with a drastic reduction in the working day: the prior condition for the participation of the working class in the democratic control and administration of society.