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Naked Bear posted:Can't we all just enjoy a good space opera with lasers and space wizards?? Time to repost this- the short answer is no, you cannot enjoy a good space opera with lasers and space wizards because to do so directly undermines the space class struggle. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/12/star-wars-the-force-awakens-empire-joseph-campbell-george-lucas/ Best quote: quote:As any good student of Mao knows, a revolutionary movement can only succeed if it wins the trust of the people; holding territory is a game played by the State, not those trying to overthrow it. We never see the rebels being sheltered from Stormtroopers by grateful peasants (while they do ally with the Ewoks, it’s with a fully colonial sense of entitlement); we never see Alliance propaganda being passed around in secret by the oppressed; we never see any indication that this armed faction has any kind of popular mandate whatsoever. It’s not just infantile bourgeois ultraleftism — Blanquism in space. 
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Bolow posted:I mean it takes like playing 10 minutes of KOTOR 1/2 or SWTOR to realize both sides of the force are shitheads but lol class struggle in a loving movie about waving laser swords around to deflect other lasers But one must ask why we laud the stories of the Jedi Knight and the Sith Lord- both symbols of the galactic equivalent of the landed gentry- while failing to acknowledge that every X-Wing, every TIE interceptor had a veritable army of unknown workers behind them? Who sings their songs? Who tells their tales? Why do we dance ever so closely to the tantalizing conclusion that the Force is Capital itself- the unseen presence that surrounds us, binds us and penetrates us- without ever fully embracing it?
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