AHC: reimagine Star Wars as a Soviet space opera

What about droids? Aren't they oppressed members of the proletariat? The Resistance should be liberating them, not continuing to own them like slaves.
Or are they just clever machines -- the means of production? -- in which case they should be owned communally, not exploited for personal gain.
 

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What about droids? Aren't they oppressed members of the proletariat? The Resistance should be liberating them, not continuing to own them like slaves.
Or are they just clever machines -- the means of production? -- in which case they should be owned communally, not exploited for personal gain.

It happens that robots were quite popular theme in Soviet and Pact cinema, and unlike in western art, usually depicted as begin.
(admit that imperialist swine, with your theme Machine Rebelion you just let out the subconcious fear that in opressed workers would one day rise up):D

I see R2-D2 and C3PO as comic relief (prehaps with tongue in cheek references to deficits, and unresonable bureucracy), while princess who "owns" them and rest of heroes are playing their fantasy tale, they remain in the background helping heroes to overcome all troubles with just common sense, bravery and industriousness. Prehaps if a more mystic touch is allowed, they are in the end granted not only freedom but also fleshy bodies.
 
Long ago, the Galaxy was dominated by the Galactic Republic. These were dark times, as the bourgeoisie dominated the heroic Proletariat, and a corrupt religious oligarchy, the Jedi, ruled everything behind the scenes. However, all was not lost, for a hero came to end this injustice: Palpatine. Palpatine led a revolution against the vile capitalists, and established a worker's paradise, after executing all the Jedi. However, all was not to last. Palpatine became drunk with power, and turned on his former comrades, even using the Force, the weapon of the hated Jedi. With the help of his minion, Darth Vader, he purged all opposition from his former compatriots, and ruled as a tyrant almost as bad as the Jedi. However, Obi Wan Kenobi, Palpatine's former friend, took the son of Darth Vader, Luke, to the planet Tatooine. Luke would one day join the rebellion against the traitors to the revolution, and prove that you did not need the force to win, defeating Palpatine and Vader and establishing a worker's paradise. Star Wars was a great hit in the USSR, despite its status as not so subtle propoganda for the recently inaugurated Premier Nikita Khrushev. Palpatine is an obvious stand in for Stalin, whose legacy Khrushev made it his mission to erase, and Obi Wan is quite obviously Trotsky, while Luke shares some traits with the Premier himself. Palpatine's use of the Force to oppress the workers also fits the narrative that Stalin was no different from the deposed Romanov dynasty. Overall, the film was a great technical achievement for the 60s, and has a fun, if propoganda-y, story. A highly recommended family classic, and good for historians analyzing the Khrushev era.
 
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