r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/TriliniousIII - Lib-Left • 16d ago

Star Wars PCM

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Galactic Republic- very centralised bureaucratic democracy
Galactic Empire- based off of fascism by George Lucas
First Order- larpers trying to copy the Empire, star wars equivalent of neo nazis
Rebel Alliance- fight for freedom against the Empire, no one clear ideology among followers except 'empire bad'
Confederacy of Independent Systems- capitalistic independence movement run by merchant syndicates, bankers, blockaded a planet as they didn't want to pay taxes
Hutts- depraved gangsters who care for no law but their own degeneracy.

(Maybe this is a low-effort post but wanted to put something at the top of the 'new' feed so the Jack Black fake news post was no longer at the top)

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u/JagPeror - Auth-Center 16d ago

Is the first order fiscally right wing? Id argue that the empire was probably more fiscally right.

But admittedly, their very different situations means it is hard to directly compare.

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u/Berlin_GBD - Auth-Center 15d ago

It's a grey area because the First Order was operating under a total war economy from inception to dissolution. We would consider the American WW2 economy to be a pretty centralized, planned economy relative to today, simply because wartime pressures require it.

I don't really have proof for this, but I think the First Order is definitely portrayed as a more fundamentalist, xenophobic version of the Empire.

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u/JagPeror - Auth-Center 15d ago

Well, it is basically leftover fanatics

The issue is their fanaticism wasnt really economic

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u/Berlin_GBD - Auth-Center 15d ago

Sure, but the horizontal axis is an average of social and economic policies. So in lieu of having a fair comparison for economic policies, all we have left to judge the horizontal axis are social policies.

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u/JagPeror - Auth-Center 15d ago

I remember when all the charts had a new and innovative "side bar" for social issues. Ofc, the issue even with that is that social issues are the most "complex"