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
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    3 years ago

    anti slavery bill that wasn’t enforced in the outer rim.

    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?

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      3 years ago

      @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.

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      3 years ago

      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.

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        3 years ago

        That’s fair, I haven’t seen the animated clone wars series. I was mainly basing off of the original trilogy.