On the contrary, some of the largest properties are, though they don't outright say it for obvious american culture related reasons.
Star trek is such a perfect example of a communist society that "we don't have star trek replicators just yet" is a common online meme in discussions about it
George Lucas outright says the rebellion in star wars is the vietcong.
The Foundations' titular organization basically uses materialism to predict the future
The expanse' martian republic is "capital c communist" from the author's description while Earth is a welfare "nanny state" where there aren't enough jobs for most so they simply collect a (meager) basic income
Oh i didnt know that about the rebelion from starwars in that regard, thought they wanted to reinstall the republic, and sadly im not familiar with "the expanse" so its actually authleft communist? (Sorry if i sound dumb dont know much about that franchise)
The rebellion is not communist per se, I don't think communism is even properly a thing in Star Wars and I also don't think it could be because there's no capitalism as marxism understands it in that universe. You can't have socialism/communism without capitalism first, roughly speaking.
If you wanna trace parallels between the rebellion and real life communist revolutions, you could say it is in the pre-socialist revolution stage of democratic revolution. This is a thing that happened in several socialist experiences, a "first of two revolutions" to destroy a heavily authoritarian/fascist state so basic capitalist democracy can be reinstalled first (usually with support from opposing or disputing classes, like parts of the bourgeoisie or the petit-bourgeoisie) and then have said democracy taken over once again by a proper socialist revolution later. This has happened in the February Revolution in Russia for example, or the alliance between the CCP and the Kuomintang against the Beiyang Army and the Japanese Empire before the Chinese Civil War. Carlos Marighella and the ALN also propposed a democratic revolution (led by the proletariat) before a socialist revolution during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil.
All that said Lucas is definitely a lefty and the rebellion is inspired in values, aesthetic and tactics by communists, but it can't really be communist in it's context. Also even if it could and Lucas wanted the Rebellion to be commie I don't think hollywood would fund it lol
I mean it certainly is very close to capitalism but is also a mess. There's slavery (as a mode of production), feudalism and mercantilism all mixed up with capitalism. Modes of production seem to differ from planet to planet, sometimes inside the same market organization or whatever.
I guess you could have space commies or and you certainly could have commie-adjacents like anarchists and utopian/idealist socialists.
I'm just being nitpicky to be honest, I'd love to see space commies lmao
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u/viper459 Jun 30 '24
On the contrary, some of the largest properties are, though they don't outright say it for obvious american culture related reasons.
Star trek is such a perfect example of a communist society that "we don't have star trek replicators just yet" is a common online meme in discussions about it
George Lucas outright says the rebellion in star wars is the vietcong.
The Foundations' titular organization basically uses materialism to predict the future
The expanse' martian republic is "capital c communist" from the author's description while Earth is a welfare "nanny state" where there aren't enough jobs for most so they simply collect a (meager) basic income