... Roddenberry must be rolling in his grave to hear his vision of a post-scarcity, moneyless socialist paradise has been dismissed and twisted, and called "quasi-fascist".
You know, that bright shiny egalitarian future where there is no money, and no one owns anything and they're all happy, and things are just sort of made out of thin air and garbage.
And I remember when people didn't really think DS9 was Trek. I guess that's where the darkness started, really.
The symbol of fascism is many sticks bound together, to symbolize weak together becoming strong enough to fight one strong enemy. The fasces. It is the same symbol of black lives matter, and of a couple strains of communism.
The Federation is VERY fascist in that regard, they're very big on "apes alone weak, but together strong", and the whole "everyone contributes" philosophy.
They face an equally fascist and socialist enemy in the Romulans, overtly representing the Fasces. And a failed state fascist and socialist enemy in the Cardassians, loosely representing National Socialism.
The capitalist non-fascist society is Ferengi. They've got their whole own set of problems, but they're very different problems.
It pisses me off that no one has ever actually read the manifesto of the Italian Fascist Party, and what Fascist meant to the ones who coined the ideology and term. It was their attempt to reconcile socialist and communist ideology with the reality that humans are personally selfish.
... Roddenberry must be rolling in his grave to hear his vision of a post-scarcity, moneyless socialist paradise has been dismissed and twisted, and called "quasi-fascist".
You know, that bright shiny egalitarian future where there is no money, and no one owns anything and they're all happy, and things are just sort of made out of thin air and garbage.
And I remember when people didn't really think DS9 was Trek. I guess that's where the darkness started, really.
The symbol of fascism is many sticks bound together, to symbolize weak together becoming strong enough to fight one strong enemy. The fasces. It is the same symbol of black lives matter, and of a couple strains of communism.
The Federation is VERY fascist in that regard, they're very big on "apes alone weak, but together strong", and the whole "everyone contributes" philosophy.
They face an equally fascist and socialist enemy in the Romulans, overtly representing the Fasces. And a failed state fascist and socialist enemy in the Cardassians, loosely representing National Socialism.
The capitalist non-fascist society is Ferengi. They've got their whole own set of problems, but they're very different problems.
It pisses me off that no one has ever actually read the manifesto of the Italian Fascist Party, and what Fascist meant to the ones who coined the ideology and term. It was their attempt to reconcile socialist and communist ideology with the reality that humans are personally selfish.