Just because Star Trek depicts a post-class society (and is vague about how it arrives there), doesn’t make it not Marxist. It just focuses on the end result of Marxism (the abolition of classes / post-class), rather than the historic period of class conflict.
My point was that the Socialist society of Star Trek’s Federation was not arrived through class struggle - it imagines a world where the Capitalist class just “allowed” Socialism to happen, instead of manufacturing scarcity to maintain their positions.
I was not claiming that the Federation in Star Trek is not compatible with Marxism/is not a Marxist state; I am claiming that the world of Star Trek does not work according to the Marxist understanding of historical materialism. Instead, it uses the Democratic-Socialist framework - it ignores bourgeois class interests and imagines a world where progress can be made through peaceful Democratic reform.
You’re focusing on a period of socialism that Star Trek doesn’t depict, and criticizing things that are missing (the historic period of class struggle), not what’s there (a post-class society focused on exploration and mutual cooperation with other worlds).
It seems a stretch to say trek is demsoc, or that the transition was a peaceful reformist one. We’re given hints that the abolition of classes occurred after a violent nuclear world war which nearly destroys humanity, massive internal upheavals and poverty, and the arrival of vulcans. I agree it’d be nice if that was elaborated upon more, but that’s a different show, and certainly not one that would be allowed to be made in the belly of the beast.
Just because Star Trek depicts a post-class society (and is vague about how it arrives there), doesn’t make it not Marxist. It just focuses on the end result of Marxism (the abolition of classes / post-class), rather than the historic period of class conflict.
My point was that the Socialist society of Star Trek’s Federation was not arrived through class struggle - it imagines a world where the Capitalist class just “allowed” Socialism to happen, instead of manufacturing scarcity to maintain their positions.
I was not claiming that the Federation in Star Trek is not compatible with Marxism/is not a Marxist state; I am claiming that the world of Star Trek does not work according to the Marxist understanding of historical materialism. Instead, it uses the Democratic-Socialist framework - it ignores bourgeois class interests and imagines a world where progress can be made through peaceful Democratic reform.
You’re focusing on a period of socialism that Star Trek doesn’t depict, and criticizing things that are missing (the historic period of class struggle), not what’s there (a post-class society focused on exploration and mutual cooperation with other worlds).
It seems a stretch to say trek is demsoc, or that the transition was a peaceful reformist one. We’re given hints that the abolition of classes occurred after a violent nuclear world war which nearly destroys humanity, massive internal upheavals and poverty, and the arrival of vulcans. I agree it’d be nice if that was elaborated upon more, but that’s a different show, and certainly not one that would be allowed to be made in the belly of the beast.