What are some egalitarian, collectivistic or socialistic societies/species in science fiction?

What are some egalitarian, collectivistic or socialistic societies/species in science fiction?

Why, the Lord's Believers, of course. :^)

Why sage my thread user? Also the Believers are fucking shit.

Nice try sneaking that one past, Yang isn't the socialist in SMAC, it's the Free Drones. I had an image too but I can't find it, fuck.

Hey kid, wanna build space communism?

Does hivemind type species count?

The Culture

I didn't feel my contribution was substantial enough to justify bumping the thread.

Also Miriam is the only one of the vanilla leaders with the balls to call everyone else out on putting their grotesque social experiments above the interests of their people.

Free Drones are cool too but I think the expansion factions sort of muddle the ideological dynamics of the original.

Chairman Yang isn't wasn't really egalitarian, collectivist or socialistic. He was a neo-Confucianist with some Nietzsche for flavor.

The Tau

Like what? The Borg? The Many from System Shock?

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Not only that, but one of the technologies implies he genetically engineers generations of slaves.

How can they be slaves if they are biologically incapable of suffering and desire only to work for their masters? I think Yang has the right idea.

Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't the humans of the Federation from Star Trek not practitioners of some form of extreme post-scarcity society that resembles something like democratic socialism?


This poster got to first.

However, there are seemingly private shops and stuff in the Federation so it's hard to say to what extent their government is involved in the economy. I think it's safe to say their government is in charge of most scientific and industrial work though

Startrek is part scarcity FALC

The Federation of Star Trek is straight up communist. I think Gene Roddenberry was a Maoist, though this was back when nobody had any idea what the fuck was going on in China with the Cultural Revolution etc.

These guys are forgetting the most important space communism. Star Trek

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the Federation is post-scarcity socialism, also other species aren't necessarily post-scarcity or just have a culture of capitalism/private business such as the Ferengi. Because of that, trade is required for some resources or luxury goods, so citizens get Federation credits to trade with other species, I believe in DS9 they could also trade for Latinum which is more generally valued.

In the show, people have private shops by choice, and don't necessarily take money, such as Sisko's father who owned a restaurant on Earth despite the existence of replicators, he did it because he loved it. This is what a future economy would likely look like, markets of luxury goods rather than necessities.

kim stanley roberts is pretty leftist

I fail to see how an undemocratically run spaceship is socialist or communist.

You can't run a ship democratically lmao

You can't take a vote on what happens on a starship; it needs to run more efficiently and smoothly than that, hence the militaristic chain of command.

the Federation is socialist, not Starfleet

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