A post-scarcity cashless society, now what?

What implications does the philosophy present in Star Trek have for any potential Communist future?

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Is it a utopia or a dystopia?

The Ferengi did nothing wrong and are one of the few perfect societies present in the series.

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None. Getting there requires things leftists are bad at like science and work ethic. It's the catch22 of star trek communism.

God damn it I wish I could find that site that argues that the Federation in Star Trek is basically a military dictatorship run by Starfleet.

hahahaha what

you mean reddit?

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No thanks.

No need, really. It's flatly apparent.

It's still however a post-scarcity cashless society.

However, the military does oversee literally everything. Controls the means of space travel. Controls the means of large scale production.

And has a moratorium in place on the use of their 3D printers for the manufacture of drugs.

I can live with that.

I mean, the space-faring age is filled with dangerous Xeno scum that wouldn't hessitate to go to war with an entire race because space teenagers dented the rear bumper of their xeno flagship.

1000% this

In a universe where we'd be surrounded by thousands of potentially hostile alien species, it'd basically be paramount to our survival that all our first encounters followed some sort of guide line. Just allowing any sort of space redneck with a ship that stumbles upon a new species to make our first impression on them could doom us.

Meanwhile, independent traders and freight carriers travel the stars as early as star trek:enterprise Era and presumably continue through the voyager era

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You meant cardassians, right?

No, literally nothing wrong. There's even a clip of it in the video.

Their entire species developed without one act of genocide.

Except they don't


[citation needed]

In any case, even if you really wanted to make the case that the Federation is some sort of dictatorship there's nothing stopping you, either alone or with other likeminded people, from just picking up and leaving to start your own anarko-whateverist collective on another planet somewhere which happens literally all the time.

Meanwhile they engage in oppression or the working class, sexism to the point that females on ferengine aren't allowed clothing, and unethical/harmful business practices.

Please labor camp yourself, friend.

Fereginar, damn autocorrect

Damn I'm slipping today

They resolved their mistreatment of women eventually allowing them equal rights.

Never watched Star Trek

I'm I missing out on something?

Not really.

Yes, especially as a leftist.
It's a post-scarcity gommunisd humanist utopia. TNG and DS9 are the best, but the original series is pretty good.

Fuck you.

Tng and ds9 were good, voyager and tos were ok, enterprise is mediocre and has the most annoying theme song ever made.

They still use it in gitmo to break men.

If you enjoy sci-fi then yes, because there's some very good sci-fi in there (for the most part).

If I took a survey of the modern far left, what % do you honestly think would be blue collar workers?

Unfortunately we've been largely brainwashed by the right. Also, muh privilege studies majors and bydlo aren't the only two demographics that exist. You're being retarded on purpose.

Before or after mass migrations in Europe?

In the U.S. the old saying goes that 'Socialism never took off in the U.S. because every poor person doesn't see themselves as an alienated worker, but instead as temporarily inconvenienced future millionaire.'

You don't need to make excuses to some false-dichotomy Holla Forumstard

Are most blue-collar workers what we'd define as "leftist?" No. In general the vast majority of people are completely ignorant of what leftism is or what it entails and wouldn't know Marxism from the Marx Brothers.

But that doesn't make them rightist, either. It's incredibly evident to the modern worker, blue, white, whatever, that something is wrong and things aren't working, and it's the modern worker that is building the alternative to capitalism not out of ideological fervor but out of economic necessity.

What's really remarkable is that even if you talk with people that are generally okay with the system as it is for whatever reason about what they think they could or should or would change about how things are now, it isn't uncommon to get left or left-leaning answers from workers that are completely ignorant of socialism.

Good point.
FUCK YES HNNGGHHHH

It's all about how you phrase a question if you want a certain answer.

And regardless, the migration crisis is going to be a flash point in European society, permanently altering a demographic, or sparking an uprising.

It's anyone's guess though if that will be fascist or some sort of anti-liberal radical left.

ok lad

kek'd till I couldn't kek anymore

The fuck am i supposed to know?