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Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? (startrek.website)
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In case you don't know, they explicitly use the term socialist to describe the Federation economy in SNW. I was wondering if ppl liked or hated it? I like it personally since it's not a dodge like "new world economy"

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[–] 37 points 2 years ago (9 children)

As I am not American I grew up with socialism being a positive connotation in day to day culture, so much so it’s wild to me that this needed to be veiled in Trek’s past. Star Trek should be as explicit as possible with this. “Hey, you want Utopia? This is how you earn it!”

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Where are you if I may ask? And I think it may have been a dictate of Gene Roddenberry to not name which economic system won out, which is kind of a copout. But yeah it's refreshing to see it called what it is finally

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Gene Roddenberry was a Maoist. Pretty sure this was a studio thing, not a Gene thing.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    He was a Maoist?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    According to his wife Majel, yes.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Where did you read this?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I admit I'm having trouble finding any transcript of the primary source. It's supposedly an answer she gave during a local convention and it's been repeated by enough websites citing each other that I don't know which one was the original.

    I'll keep trying to find it, though.

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