Bit of a lighthearted question: Do you see the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars as communist? Or another form of leftist?
If so, would that make Star Wars a leftist film series?
Bit of a lighthearted question: Do you see the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars as communist? Or another form of leftist?
If so, would that make Star Wars a leftist film series?
No I’d say they’re definitely liberal. The old republic became a bureaucratic and corrupt nightmare of horrible inefficiency since they passed an anti slavery bill that wasn’t enforced in the outer rim. The empire had a Socialist aesthetic but of course that aesthetic is something that was stolen by fascism. The fascists stole Socialist aesthetic and rhetoric and turned it into “for the nation” and “for the race” or whatever.
The Rebels are just a counter liberal revolution for the most part.
I think that’s disney canon tho. As far as tatooine goes, the republic had either no presence, or a positive one, otherwise why would tons of young ppl from the outer worlds be joining the rebellion?
@muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml is pretty much right in this case.
George Lucas, in his original conception, based on his sayings, original concepts, and what’s actually show, does portray the Rebellion as being a people’s war and the Empire as being literal Space Nazis.
The anti-slavery bill being unenforced was part of the clone wars animated show that ran before Disney bought the franchise.
Tatooine also shows up in both the EU and the Disney canon during the clone wars, it’s an outer rim world that stayed independent during the separatist war, but during the imperial era became an imperialized world for its ore deposits. before the empire, it was a regular haunt of the galaxy’s criminal underworld, but during the empire, it became a hotbed of anti-Imperial sentiment. Most of its residents were either natively born on the planet, or immigrated there to work in the mining industry or to flee the law. It’s somewhat of a narrative equivalent of the fictionalized old west towns you’ll see in spaghetti westerns. People moved there either to chase the ore mining industry or to flee the law, then lawmen followed - following that the locals got annoyed at the law and fought back.
That’s fair, I haven’t seen the animated clone wars series. I was mainly basing off of the original trilogy.