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
He also said the rebels were inspired by the Vietcong and the empire by America. Check out his interview on sixty minutes. He talks about how dope Soviet film was as well