Star Trek is canonically socialist according to Strange New Worlds
Star Trek is canonically socialist according to Strange New Worlds
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27135964
This needed clarification lmao
You could have argued they were post-capitalist, if you didn't know that's what socialism is.
They've never explained how property works, because even if stuff is free not everyone can get a French vineyard.
He gets the vineyard because he can be bothered to run the vineyard. There are plenty of other planets with French weather if other people want to run a vineyard. Because it's his childhood home and he's saved the planet, no one's going to strongly object to him getting that particular vineyard.
Earth is still the biggest planet for humans and there are tons of people that would want to have that and live there. Other planets don't have Starfleet academy and tons of headquarters and institutions that are only on earth. If you just keep everything status quo then you have massive amounts of hereditary white families sitting on the best properties in the world.
copy/pasted from .ml:
at first, i thought you crossposed this to the star trek instance and i was going to warn you that they’re reactionary and delight in banning leftists. lol
the oniony layers of reactionaryism when it comes to star trek has been sadly fascinating to me: i lol’ed with conservative trekkies were lambasted by liberals for calling trek too woke because its newest iterations embraced lgbt and poc characters/stories and then i was just as stunned as those conservatives when those same liberals likewise ostracized leftists trekkies despite celebrating the leftist basis of star trek, like in the “fully automated gay space communism” meme.
i wish i could understood how you can celebrate a popular leftist series; but reject leftists.
I don't reject Discovery because it embraces LGBT or POC characters. I reject it because it's written like shit, especally the parts about LGBTQ characters.
An example of a show around the same time that handled LGBT issues much better than Discovery: Umbrella Academy.
Cognitive dissonance, that society is ideal but I don't like anyone that would being about that society I just want to snap my fingers and end up in post scarcity utopia.
Eudamonic, surely.