A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #369 - Culture - Games: Fachorama, the 88 Families Game (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Four years after Antifa, the Game[2], Libertalia and La Horde have 
teamed up again to release a board game. This time, they poke fun at the 
various far-right groups by grouping them together in the style of a 
card game. ---- Antifeminists, Islamophobes, conspiracy theorists, and 
neo-Nazis-all the factions of the right and far right are represented. 
The goal is to guess which family each card in your hand belongs to in 
order to collect them and score points. Be warned, some families are 
harder to collect than others. While there are many racist or 
Islamophobic cops on the far right, you'll struggle to guess who the 
rare republicans are.

This game allows you to gain a good understanding of the French 
far-right sphere. This knowledge can be reinforced by referring to the 
excellent graphic also published by La Horde[1]. If the world of fascism 
is currently unfamiliar to you, you can still use your deductive 
reasoning. By recognizing Marion Maréchal-Le Pen on the "Politician" 
card from the "Things Were Better Before" family, you'll surely guess 
that you can ask your opponents for the "Conservative Essayist" card, 
featuring Alain Finkielkraut, to complete this family.

Trying to guess the personalities represented on the cards is actually 
part of the fun when you discover this game. Among others, you'll find 
Marine Le Pen, Bruno Retailleau, Éric Zemmour, and Alice Cordier. And 
while it's generally easy to recognize them, you'll happily play with 
this abhorrent collection of faces accompanied by short, always very 
relevant, descriptive texts.

Images and texts so aptly captured the essence of the issue that the 
Alliance police union heavily criticized it, and the Minister of the 
Interior, Laurent Nuñez, filed a complaint "for public insult or 
defamation against a public administration." And, as with Antifa, Le 
Jeu, this only served to boost sales.

Rémi (UCL Lyon)

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[1]"Framework of the Far Right in France - 15th Edition," Lahorde.info, 
Winter 2024.

[2]La Horde Collective: "Being a Toolbox Against the Far Right and Its 
Ideas," Alternative libertaire no. 322, December 2021.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Jouer-Fachorama-le-jeu-des-88-familles
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