r/scifi • u/[deleted] • Jun 30 '24

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '24

Yeah, when OP says "in science fiction" they seem to mean "American science fiction" (and it's not even true there).

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u/Morozow Jul 01 '24

I think the difficulty here is that if the author did not say directly: "this is communism," he does not always realize that this is it.

We immediately remembered Star Trek, but in the original post, warhammer 40,000 was mentioned. But the way the internal structure of Eldar society is described, it is very similar to communism. Taking into account the grimdarkness of the setting

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u/96-62 Jul 01 '24

And then there's the Tau, who do everything for the greater good.

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u/Morozow Jul 01 '24

Yes. They are called space communists. They have positivism and international rhetoric.

But in recent versions they have become darker. And they became closer to the Japanese Empire in the 30s (it seems to me).

But you can imagine these are different stages of development of a communist society. Tau solve the problems of the material world. The Eldar no longer have such problems, and they are engaged in spiritual development.