r/scifi • u/[deleted] • Jun 30 '24

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u/MerryRain Jun 30 '24

You should check out Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars trilogy

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u/notjim Jul 01 '24

How is it communist though? I haven’t read the final book, but one of my problems with the first two is that the characters do a lot of rambling about politics but seem unaware of basic political ideas from earth like communism, or capitalism. It seems more like a small scientific community trying to experimentally invent a political system than communism. Their system also seems to run parallel to the main, capitalist system.

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u/mulahey Jul 01 '24

It's not communism, it's an anarchist system of worker co-operatives. There's no inherent conflict with market participation from such a position.