and if not, whether they’d like some help doing so.
This would very quickly become the same issue as China supporting revolutions would become right now. It would mean a cold war between Earth and the bourgeoise alien planet.
I think there are aspects to consider as well such as whether their species is even capable of communism. No contact or interference until the species is interstellar seems like a safe option.
There's also the question of what kind of aliens are they, most people imagine a human-like alien but this could mean pretty significant differences. They good be gestalt hives, they could be fish people with a completely different set of ethics to us even if they are collective, they could be deeply species-ist but ontologically capable of collective cooperation solely within their own species, etc etc. There is a real question of "what is the nature of this alien" to answer before deciding for absolutely certain that they should be treated like humans because ultimately they might be a real and dangerous threat. I advocate for peace but I wouldn't hug a shark and expect it not to bite me, understanding them is important first.
Yeah I was definitely thinking that. Thing is the aliens could be completely beyond our comprehension, what if they're a fucking sentient gas cloud or something?
While I'm all for human nature being communist-compatible I definitely don't believe that literally all aliens might be, the ethics of an ant hive might not be particularly compatible with humans. Or they might be? But we need to study and work that out before we get ourselves killed. Blundering in and assuming friendliness and compatibility is an amateur mistake.
Yes
Depends on whether their working class has already seized it, and if not, whether they'd like some help doing so.
I'm going to assume this is a sex thing
This would very quickly become the same issue as China supporting revolutions would become right now. It would mean a cold war between Earth and the bourgeoise alien planet.
I think there are aspects to consider as well such as whether their species is even capable of communism. No contact or interference until the species is interstellar seems like a safe option.
There's also the question of what kind of aliens are they, most people imagine a human-like alien but this could mean pretty significant differences. They good be gestalt hives, they could be fish people with a completely different set of ethics to us even if they are collective, they could be deeply species-ist but ontologically capable of collective cooperation solely within their own species, etc etc. There is a real question of "what is the nature of this alien" to answer before deciding for absolutely certain that they should be treated like humans because ultimately they might be a real and dangerous threat. I advocate for peace but I wouldn't hug a shark and expect it not to bite me, understanding them is important first.
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Yeah I was definitely thinking that. Thing is the aliens could be completely beyond our comprehension, what if they're a fucking sentient gas cloud or something?
While I'm all for human nature being communist-compatible I definitely don't believe that literally all aliens might be, the ethics of an ant hive might not be particularly compatible with humans. Or they might be? But we need to study and work that out before we get ourselves killed. Blundering in and assuming friendliness and compatibility is an amateur mistake.
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well if they're somehow entirely incompatible with communism then that's just more reason we gotta do something about them innit
if you just mean stages of development or whatever
cool, we can speed them up then, that seems like it'd be pretty trivial at that point????