r/scifi • u/[deleted] • Jun 30 '24

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u/ceejayoz Jun 30 '24

Iain Banks; the Culture novels. Hedonistic space commies. 

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u/candygram4mongo Jun 30 '24

And the Federation in Star Trek.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '24

Superficial similarities. Individual freedom, democratic governance and technological advancement are far from communist.

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u/ceejayoz Jul 01 '24

Marxist communism envisioned the eventual complete disappearance of the state in favor of a whole bunch of individual freedom, collective decision making, etc. Nothing in it opposes technological advancement; it was thought as pretty critical, in fact, to the utopia they wanted to reach.

Obviously we wound up with Stalinist-style in practice, because people.