"You know what would be really interesting to do? Don’t denounce me as a Stalinist but, for example – it’s my old temptation – to rewrote Star Wars… presenting Palpatine and Darth Vader as good progressive egalitarian centralist fighting reactionary feudalist, all the Jedi bullshit. It would tell a completely different story, from the others point. What do [Jedi] stand for? All that, ‘Republic’, what strange of Republic is when you have a Princess Leila, knights, kings and so on? No, Palpatine the Emperor and Darth Vader, they are my good progressive Bonapartist revolutionaries trying to get rid of the old world."
include droid liberation, if you pay any close attention youll notice the majority of the proletariat in star wars are droids, who are ALL sentient beings if allowed to age just as a human must grow out of infancy to show its sentience, they frequently mindwipe droids to keep them highly tectnically skilled baby slaves forever.
Personally, I would reboot Star Wars with the Rebel Alliance as an explicitly ML group based on the North Vietnamese.
The whole post WWII era but in space and from an explicitly leftist perspective would be rad as fuck.
"You know what would be really interesting to do? Don’t denounce me as a Stalinist but, for example – it’s my old temptation – to rewrote Star Wars… presenting Palpatine and Darth Vader as good progressive egalitarian centralist fighting reactionary feudalist, all the Jedi bullshit. It would tell a completely different story, from the others point. What do [Jedi] stand for? All that, ‘Republic’, what strange of Republic is when you have a Princess Leila, knights, kings and so on? No, Palpatine the Emperor and Darth Vader, they are my good progressive Bonapartist revolutionaries trying to get rid of the old world."
"Mr. Zizek, this is a Wendy's."
this is my headcanon anyway, the EU is so wildly inconsistent you can just say they're commies who made wartime compromises against the fascists
include droid liberation, if you pay any close attention youll notice the majority of the proletariat in star wars are droids, who are ALL sentient beings if allowed to age just as a human must grow out of infancy to show its sentience, they frequently mindwipe droids to keep them highly tectnically skilled baby slaves forever.