@artkavanagh oh, that’s interesting about the different flavours of Marxism; I only have a passing understanding so never realised that could potentially be an issue. I suppose though, that’s one of the interesting things about science fiction: the good books & movies can challenge our perceptions of systems & “earth centric” assumptions, but often in a “safe” way, because they’re showing us these things with robots and aliens, not the people next door. We can try out different ways of being without having to commit, hehe.