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My vote is golf for the former, and wrestling for the latter

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[โ€“] WrongOnTheInternet@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago (6 children)

The obvious answer is that sports are generally not characterisable as capitalist or proletarian on their own - you can imagine people whacking things around the land with a stick prior to the enclosure of the common land and subsequently formal development of golf.

That said, if you're providing universal access to F1 racing your society has hit FALGSC pretty hard

The obvious answer is that sports are generally not characterisable as capitalist or proletarian on their own - you can imagine people whacking things around the land with a stick prior to the enclosure of the common land and subsequently formal development of golf.

Counterexample: Foxhunting where inbred Anglo nobles on horseback follow a bunch of dogs tearing a fox to shreds will always be reactionary.

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