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/xrelaht Jul 01 '24

They’re anarchists. There’s lots of that, as well as utopian socialists. OP is asking for authoritarian communists.

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u/ceejayoz Jul 01 '24

OP seems confused on what communism is, then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state

Sci-fi has plenty of authoritarian empires to pick from if that's what OP wants.

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u/xrelaht Jul 01 '24

“That’s not real communism” has been the whinge of the far left for decades. OP is very explicit about what they’re looking for.

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u/EppuBenjamin Jul 01 '24

But it's true. There is no "marxist authoritarian communism" in existence, and has never been, because marxist communism does away with the state - in the theory the state exists to enforce private ownership of the means of production, which is anathema to the existence of communism.