Currently, Lucas is among the most intellectually dishonest people alive.
However, flashback to Lucas of 1977 Star Wars for this little gem to solidify my point about his own correlations between the Galactic Empire and the Soviet Union, per the article referenced below:
“Biggs has no patience for these excuses. “What good’s all your uncle’s work if the Empire takes it over? You know they’ve already started to nationalize commerce in the central systems? It won’t be long before your uncle’s just a tenant slaving for the greater glory of the Empire.” (Scene runs from 2:38 to 5:42 time stamp.)
That one line of dialogue transforms the Empire from a militaristic antagonist with an entirely unknown policy agenda to a totalitarian government with a state-run economy that bears a strong resemblance to both Hitler’s National Socialism and Stalin’s “socialism in one country.”
The scene in which Biggs urges Luke to fight to defend the free market may not have made it into the final film, but the implications it makes about Imperial economic policy live on. According to Wookiepedia, an online encyclopedia of the Star Wars expanded universe, Emperor Palpatine’s version of the anti-capitalist policies of his Nazi and Soviet counterparts was known as “imperialization,” a program that included “the state control and centralization of economic procedures… [and] commercial enterprises.” A major subplot in the recent novel Star Wars: Thrawn shows how imperialization ruined the mining planet Lothal, replacing innovation with cronyism and leading to forced labor, environmental destruction, and a massacre of peaceful protestors.”
We can go back and forth all day about what Lucas and the Disney psychopaths currently say/do.
However, upon close inspection of Biggs’ talking points to Luke, the Empire’s collectivization efforts are straight out of the Soviet playbook.
Who said anything about “currently say”? I’m talking about George Lucas’s old notes penned back to when he started writing the film.
This bit, I mean:
https://otnesse.tumblr.com/post/162081709399/this-is-from-george-lucas-1973-notes-for-star
This if anything points to Star Wars being planned from the start of being pro-Communist/anti-American by Lucas himself. Probably one of the few instances where he actually WAS honest (and certainly the only one of those things he claims always happened that I WISH was a lie rather than true).
As far as the deleted scene is concerned, you’re assuming George Lucas was the one who wrote it, and more importantly that he would have wanted it in. What makes you think he wasn’t the one who, say, ordered for it to be cut in the first place? I find it extremely unlikely that a guy who sings praises for how Stalin runs films in the height of the Soviets like he did with Charlie Rose would be against that bit. And even if we WERE to assume for just a moment he did indeed want that, we have no way of guaranteeing if he actually meant the Soviet playbook when he wrote that scene. He’s part of the anti-war left, probably one of the more radical of them at that since he deliberately modeled the “heroes” after the Vietcong. For all we know, he may have meant “nationalize commerce” as in “we went to Vietnam solely to raid their tin deposits”, like a very radical leftist film professor in college did back in 2011, a professor I had the absolute misfortune of having to deal with. And if you really must know, here are the audio files for the professor (I think it was mid-to-late in the semester, since that was when he REALLY let loose with his far left sympathies, conveniently around the time his students can no longer leave a course by the midway point.): https://www.mediafire.com/folder/kuoug340id3bz/Introduction+to+Film Besides, with the EU, especially stuff like Han Solo and the Corporate Sector, they treated businesses and capitalism as allies of the Empire, not its enemies, and the Corporate Sector Authority was actually given a significant amount of freedom, barely needing to do anything beyond a yearly tax for the Empire, while ironically, it’s the REBELS who intended to pretty much break the system upon gaining power and calling them “worse than the Empire.”