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?

  • Muad'DibberMA
    3·
    4 years ago

    because the republic was a state that only benefitted the core worlds.

    This is kinda the main issue tho, otherwise they’re fighting a temporarily successful counter-revolution. Is there anything in the movies (I don’t know if anything else is considered canon) that suggests the republic before palpatine was malicious towards these worlds? AFAIK almost all the worlds we see in the original films are outside of the republic / eventual empire.

    • Makan
      2·
      4 years ago

      Actually, the Republic in The Clone Wars and New EU is pretty corrupt. Even George Lucas said so.

    • Star Wars Enjoyer A
      2·
      4 years ago

      It’s well established in both the canon and the EU that the core worlds have always been exploitative of the outer rim. The earliest example of this (in terms of in-world timeline) is the conquests of the old republic into the outer rim during the sith wars. In essence, the core worlds represent the first world of IRL and the outter rim represents the third world.

      During the Republic, it’s already well established that the republic only worked for coreworlders and humans, this is reinforced by the opening negotiations scene in episode 1, and further reinforced in nearly every examination of the CIS that attempts to explain why systems joined it. I don’t off the top of my head remember when this was added to the canon, but it was before episode 1 and sometime after episode 7. But, we also see with the New Republic, they kinda just reverted to this exploitation of the outer rim.