Firefly

[Prairie Fire]

Okay this is a really loser question, irrelevent to the building of real-world socialism, but I have to ask anyways:

Any one watch (or used to watch,) Firefly?

If so, are the browncoats leftwing or rightwing? I can't seem to make up my mind about that, as they display tendencies of both.

[Die Neue Zeit]

^^^ They were inspired loosely on the grunts of the Confederate side in the US Civil War.

[Hiero]

I have watched it. Great series (the one season) and a great movie.

Economic or social politics of the browncoats were ever expressed, unless I missed something. They seem to just be separatist or independents. I agree with Jacob, however Mal's politics are not comparable to Confederate politics. They creators just played with the rebel image of Johnny Reb.

You say they displayed tendencies of both right and left wing. Can you go give some examples?

[Prairie Fire]

Well, in the show Captian Malcolm Reynolds says "That's what governments are for; to get in a mans way."

On the other hand, the government that they struggle against certainly is a Fascist entity (rather than a bourgois democracy), and there are certainly class war elements to their struggle against slavery and aristocracy.

Over-all, I'd classify the Browncoats as anti-imperialist, but I can't decide wether that makes them left-wing revolutionaries, or right-wing militia men (they seem quite opposed to centralized goverment or federalism in any way.).

[Hiero]

Do you like the show?