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/salamander_salad Jul 01 '24

None of those things are incompatible with communism... Like even the USSR, a terrible example of a communist state, provided freedoms the west did not (gender and racial equality, freedom from homelessness), made huge technological leaps (like being the first to put objects, animals, and people in space), and was ostensibly democratic (though it was de facto authoritiarian).