I thought about that while watching one of the “Star Wars” movies the other month. I think of the Emperor and the Dark Side as a bunch of commies. But the leftists who enjoy it apparently see Vader as Dick Cheney.
I believe it was Jonathan Last at WeeklyStandard who wrote a long dissertation on the Empire as being more capitalist and meritocratic than the Jedi.
He was roundly disputed.
His argument was laid rest when someone showed him a scene cut from the movie that was in the original novelization wherein Luke and his best bud (who’s shipping out to join the rebellion) have a long discussion at a bar in the town of Anchorhead wherein the Empire’s fascistic, corporatist threat to the independent moisture farmers on Tatooine is stated clearly.