You could liken the political system of the star wars universe to any "corrupt" regime's political system: from roman empire to middle eastern autocracies. Stop calling everything you don't like neoliberal. The fuck did the galactic republic do, stop ewoks from nationalizing their booby trap industry and make them adhere to free market principles?

Stop using political ideologies as value judgement, even if those said ideologies suck ass

  • Judge_Juche [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    The Galactic Republic was probably some kind of capitalist hyper-exploitative shithole, their Galactic Senate had senators representing various intergalactic corporations, and those corporations had private Droid armies that could besiege whole planets.

    • vorenza [any]
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      4 years ago

      I agree that critiquing capitalist practices/US military has always been part of Star Wars' thing, but just calling it neoliberalism seems wrong to me.

        • Posadist_Moby_Dick [comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          There is also a small part of the galaxy that’s literally ancapistan. Different parts of the galaxy correlate to countries in something based on earth . Naboo was an elective monarchy that was part of the EU basically. Doesn’t mean the EU isn’t neoliberal if they let a monarchy in, but yes it did happen a long time ago...allegedly.