Star Trek shows a wonderful post scarcity world where every material thing can be duplicated...but power and rank (the one thing everyone craves) is allocated by The Party. Of course commies love it - it's got commie power politics and capitalist wealth characteristics.https://twitter.com/BoomerNiner/status/1452772603559616512 …
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2/ Some animals are more equal than othershttps://twitter.com/_Eremurus/status/1452785303761166336?t=_VoaJaeBW0L-PYweHg34CQ&s=19 …
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3/ Offscreen! The plates (ah, I mean starships) fly around for no discernable cause! Clearly it is the will of the proletariat that decides who gets promoted and what happens, and this will is...expressed...somehow...indirectly...https://twitter.com/amendlocke/status/1452786397706866689?t=Re6YeLCeVxO1X7_t-2GFFw&s=19 …
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So, no evidence! There's no suggestion the UFP came about through class struggle. I see it as pretty much home-grown American utopian socialism (with the Vulcans as persuasive example that convinces people).
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Conceded re origin story / flavor.
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