Karl Marx, born on this day in 1818, was a foundational political theorist and journalist associated with the philosophy of Marxism.
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Marx's critical theories about society, economics and politics - collectively understood as Marxism - hold that human societies develop through class conflict. In capitalism, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production, and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labor power in return for wages.
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I've seen a lot of comments over the years about how the scene where Anakin is talking politics with padme in the pretty naboo field to be his showing to support fascism. He supports a dictatorship but is clearly too himbo to have any further elaboration. Even a dictatorship is going a bit far, he just says someone one wise should be around to make senators agree on stuff. That's basically just a guy with executive power who can overrule deadlocks based strictly on what he said. That's not particularly abnormal
In that Dark Vader destroyed the jedi order, a corrupt and worthless order of cops, he was correct. Ask the spice slaves of tattoene if the replacing the corript senators with one corrupt emperor actually made their lives worse. I think not.
I appreciated the detail on season 1 of Andor thar he was displaced as a child by The Republic. This was prior to the empire and the same shit was happening
It's when he says the senators or whoever should be forced to agree which Padme (the liberal subject we identify with in the west) says isn't democratic. Someone wise leading would be great, but what matters is who holds power and how. You can be wise as the day is long, but if you don't hold power you ain't got bupkis. Contextually, we know Anakin becomes Darth Vader and helps install the Empire - which colours how people view his thoughts.
He seems less of a political/history changer until he becomes Vader. He probably would be the political equivalent of McConaughey as Anakin the War Hero Jedi of Prophecy, who could very easily become a catspaw for a political class interested in dictatorship or oligarchy or show/shame democracy (notwithstanding how "democratic" bourgeois democracy is in the first place, even if it is progressive compared to feudalism).
I'm just taking the conversation and anakin as a character up to that point and removing the context we have from other movies cause 1)it's more fun and B) he isn't thinking about Palpatine at the time or at least if he is, it's in the abstract. I have no idea how the galactic senate functions as a political body or specifically ehat the issues are during the prequels which makes this a problem to unravel but I think my conclusion that anakin is just kind of a big dum dum holds the most water