Star Trek Communism

  1. Q
    Q - 24th February 2012, 15:09
    So, is the Federation - or at the very least Earth, Vulcan and other core planets - a communist society or not?

    Discuss!
  2. The Old Man from Scene 24 - 24th February 2012, 23:00
    They may not comply to every definition of communism, but I have noticed a couple of things:

    Moneyless and demand economy - As seen in Star Trek: Insurrection, Picard points out to a 21st Centry-er' that money is not used in the future, and that things are produced only for the benefit of humanity, as opposed to profit.

    Anti-Imperialism - The United Federation of Planet's famous policy "The Prime Directive" prevents the UFoP from colonialism and interfering with less-developed civilizations.

    Over all, I'd say that if it isn't communist, it is at least a very left-leaning series.
  3. Q
    Q - 25th February 2012, 15:19
    They may not comply to every definition of communism, but I have noticed a couple of things:

    Moneyless and demand economy - As seen in Star Trek: Insurrection, Picard points out to a 21st Centry-er' that money is not used in the future, and that things are produced only for the benefit of humanity, as opposed to profit.
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    That was in Star trek: First Contact.
  4. x371322
    x371322 - 1st March 2012, 05:26
    I read that Patrick Stewart actually considers himself a socialist.
  5. Teddyjer Ilyich Otterman
    Teddyjer Ilyich Otterman - 10th August 2012, 15:51
    I was just discussing this point with my (soon to be) husband the other day. The Third World War was the traumatic event that shook humanity out of its Capitalist insanity. No money, no hunger, plenty of work, science being used to gain knowledge and not to make money or destroy...sounds pretty Communist to me. Plus, consider the imperialists all around them...Klingon, Romunlon (sp?), Cardassian. Seems pretty cut and dried to me.
  6. Geiseric
    Geiseric - 14th September 2012, 17:46
    guys!!!! patrick stewart played Lenin in a BBC series! Fall of Eagles!
  7. Q
    Q - 15th September 2012, 06:59
    guys!!!! patrick stewart played Lenin in a BBC series! Fall of Eagles!
    Cool!

    This is a nice example of Lenin and Trotsky.

    From 4:30 on Lenin makes the case for a revolutionary party. "The battle for now, comrade Trotsky, is not with the Tsar, it is with ourselves".

    So true! Again!