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  • EleventhHour@lemmy.worldtoSocialism@lemmy.ml•The Expanse: maybe good world for socialist fan fic
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    3 months ago

    My only exposure to this series was through the TV series, and while I was intrigued with the rich presentation of class struggle, I was ultimately quite disappointed by what was made of both it and everything else when it suddenly ended , i felt, prematurely and unsatisfactorily. I could see it going on and becoming an increasingly complex series for many more seasons and wished it would, but it already had problems finding funding, and the books ended the show, so…

    And as a presentation of socialism, I don’t really see that. It was mostly a criticism of classism and of capitalism. Socialism appeared to exist to some degree on earth, but it didn’t work there as intended, but there wasn’t a lot of well recent criticism of it exactly. Self determinism seem to work well on Mars, but it was unclear whether socialism or capitalism was a system of economics there or not or what system of economics was dominant in the belt.

    Ultimately, economic discourse and criticisms seem to take a backseat to critique on classism military complex power strugglesin the series.