What's wrong with bashing big business? There's a long and honourable libetarian tradition of doing so. Big business -- in the Star Wars universe and in the real universe -- is often in league with government and eager to advance itself through force and government favouritism rather than through peaceful trade and commerce, and is one of the main forces driving the expansion of the state.
I'm not suggesting that Lucas himself holds the libertarian rather than the socialist version of business-bashing; but as he tells the story in the movies it's perfectly consistent with the libertarian version.
by Roderick T. Long on August 29, 2004 at 9:56 AM