{"id":95875,"date":"2025-10-13T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=95875"},"modified":"2025-05-28T21:28:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T01:28:52","slug":"communism-socialism-and-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/10\/13\/communism-socialism-and-star-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Communism, Socialism, and <em>Star Trek<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hksUrtFvzjE?si=WGlprwUcP7JDqZiw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 23 May 2025<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a long history of <em>Star Trek<\/em> being equated with communism, both in praise and condemnation. But is it really mappable to modern politics, given that it assumes a different set of socioeconomic conditions? More to the point, is socialism (in the Marxist transitional sense) just a dead-end?<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n00:51 What&#8217;s Capitalism?<br \/>\n04:00 Communist, not Socialist<br \/>\n07:14 Theory and Practice<br \/>\n08:51 Goals and Process<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<br \/>\nObligatory shameless plug for <em>Ninti&#8217;s Gate<\/em><br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 23 May 2025 There&#8217;s a long history of Star Trek being equated with communism, both in praise and condemnation. But is it really mappable to modern politics, given that it assumes a different set of socioeconomic conditions? More to the point, is socialism (in the Marxist transitional sense) just a dead-end? 00:00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28,53],"tags":[712,780,1593,85,76,223,1574],"class_list":["post-95875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-media","category-politics","tag-centralplanning","tag-communism","tag-feralhistorian","tag-sf","tag-socialism","tag-startrek","tag-technocracy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-oWn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95876,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95875\/revisions\/95876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}