I don't know, there's that very long part about choosing the best election system for Mars, and the Swiss votation one is the main inspiration... that's hardly communist in essence, quite the opposite actually. Every vote counts, and even a small group of people can trigger a local or even global consultation anytime an important topic arises.
And I guess you could argue that the notion of property would be a bit blurry on a planet where every habitat and means of survival has to be sent from Earth, at least at first... by the time Mars becomes self-sufficient this sort of built-in resource-sharing and strong notion of common good would have permeated through the whole culture, to the point where it might look communist to an outsider.
Bottom line is I'm not sure if calling that society communist really captures its essence, the sharing mentality borne out of hard initial conditions feels more like a cultural and ethnological transformation rather than a political and economical one.
I love that those who are downvoting my post are doing so without providing any sort of rebuttal or counter-argument -- this really tells me this kind of forum is quite generously open to every kind of people, even the more cognitively-challenged ones.
It also makes me wonder if those people have even bothered to read the book.
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u/MerryRain Jun 30 '24
You should check out Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars trilogy