• Emi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 years ago

    ‘Make It So’: ‘Star Trek’ and Its Debt to Revolutionary Socialism

    Beginning in 1966, the plot of “Star Trek” closely followed Posadas’s propositions. After a nuclear third world war (which Posadas also believed would lead to socialist revolution), Vulcan aliens visit Earth, welcoming them into a galactic federation and delivering replicator technology that would abolish scarcity. Humans soon unify as a species, formally abolishing money and all hierarchies of race, gender and class.

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      3 years ago

      what does star trek have to do with day of the dead art?