As the years went by and I watched ever more Star Trek, combined with the enlightenment of Marxism, I came to the conclusion that a similar societal way, historical determinism, was described by Marx and others. The Federation and its ideology are socialist by nature.
Observing the federation through a realistic picture of the possible progress of humanity, we will assume that the universe and our environment are capable of supporting life outside the Earth. At the moment of our enlightenment with this information, humanity will find itself at a turning point. Abolish the self-destructive economic hierarchy of the world, destroy the social constructs that keep us in shackles, or remain just one broken world of semi-sapient monkeys.
The idea of the Federation, in my opinion, is the perfect idea of the end of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the beginning of a classless society, and the beginning of a communist utopia. The very assumption that a classless society begins with the federation as we know it through the series gives oxygen to an optimistic mind that looks at all this through the eyes of a Marxist.
What do you think about it? Is the Federation something that modern, real Marxists should strive for? Are the ideals of the Federation compatible with the ideas of communism?
TLDR: Do you think that the Federation is a stepping stone to a classless society?
It can’t hurt to have dreams and aspirations. It may not be possible to do many of the things the federation shows being done technology wise such as colonizing and reaching out to the stars beyond out solar system (I mean maybe you could build colony ships with robots, frozen eggs and sperm, artificial wombs and send them on a several hundred or thousand year journey to other solar systems and inhabitable planets to colonize them but it’d be entirely different than what Star Trek shows and they’d be effectively cut off from us and us from them) but it does show the better world/galaxy if we work cooperatively idea well.
As to striving for it? It’s not something within reach of any of our lifetimes. It isn’t really our purview to strive for it, it would be the job of those who come after us or after those to do that.
If you’re asking if it’s the type of fiction I like seeing and think we as socialists should encourage them absolutely, 100%. And yes by the way, new Trek is liberal garbage because they couldn’t stand seeing socialists winning. Any Trek revival under socialism will retcon everything after DS9 and the TNG movies.
Most of them. Although I’ve watched all old Trek I’m not a scholar on it or a total lore nerd so someone else might better chime in. I’m sure there are problems here and there as it isn’t like Roddenberry had a warehouse full of blackmail on CBS executives and the government to allow him to do whatever he wanted perfectly (though I do love the story about how they wanted to put a preacher on the original enterprise as part of the bridge crew and every time he’d just say “interesting idea” and walk off looking thoughtful).