• banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Star Wars is literally space conservatives rebelling against the galactic communist (1970s US propagandized version of invented communism-fascist aesthetic*) empire…

    Firefly is to an even greater degree, like libertarian Browncoats rebelling. I love the fan fic take that the Alliance were the “good guys.”

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        10 months ago

        Yeah it’s not actual communism but more like a reflection of the fears of communism in pop culture from the time when it was written in the late 70s. Comment was a bit inprecise but amended.

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          10 months ago

          Even the empire’s uniforms were pretty obviously based on nazi uniforms, what makes you think the empire is supposed to represent communism?

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                10 months ago

                It is literally the word for “Father” in Dutch and in German there is just one letter difference ("Vater - “Vader”). It is pronounced differently, because it is a movie made for an american audience by an american director and writer.