Whatever George intended got lost in the final cuts. Star Wars are mythic films. The politics of Episodes 1-6 are timeless. A person of any political persuasion can watch those movies and impose their own political views onto them. One could see it as the American colonists fighting the British Empire, the Allies against the Axis, The Vietnamese against the Capitalists. Or the rise of despotic, centralized Empires and the fall of Democratic Republics due to internal corruption.
Once an artist reveals his work to the public, it ceases to his alone. Art is both the creator and the observer.
I want to believe you. Really, I do. Unfortunately, after his role in Edutopia and the brainwashing of kids into leftism, I suspect that whatever George Lucas intended did in fact get absorbed. It also doesn’t help that Ian McDiarmid implied around the time Revenge of the Sith was released that Lucas deliberately made Star Wars for kids specifically to indoctrinate them into his left-wing beliefs.
Besides, let me point out the situation with Metal Gear. In Metal Gear Solid 2, for example, we had a character named Solidus, who, although technically antagonistic, was nevertheless more of a proto-Tea Party type (the game was released in 2001, a decade before the Tea Party movement), and also looked up to his “father”, Big Boss. Big Boss in Snake Eater was also indicated to not be fond of Communism at all, even learning first hand some horrifying elements the Soviets did. But then we get to Peace Walker where Kojima for whatever reason decided to have Big Boss sing praises for Che Guevara. Didn’t matter that his work was released to the public, it still exposed Kojima’s true nature and tarnished the art in the process. You can see more of that on this tumblr post I made on the subject here which contains all of the above and more: https://otnesse.tumblr.com/post/649890953815113728/commentary-on-peace-walkers-lionization-of-che