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Let the Dialectics guide you Lenin. - Karl Marx in A New Hope
I thought the same thing as you before, especially when I started to watch Andor. As long as you keep in mind that the ideas the characters have come from their material conditions and avoid the trope of the benevolent ruler, I don't see much that could go wrong. Really interested in what others here have to say about it.
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Could you please elaborate on what you meant here? I didn't quite get this, as a writer myself.
Well, the conditions for communism to exist must be there. In our world, we have experience with slavery and wage-labour, as well as philosophers (Marx) that built on the ideas of previous ones (Hegel) to radically change society. The proletariat needs certain precarious conditions to achieve class consciousness and needs a vanguard. You can start your story without the vanguard though (maybe the protagonist will build the vanguard?). But to actually formulate it precisely: For the proletariat to rise up it actually needs to be exploited in the first place. Most fantasy societies will have people with different power levels, so you would need to think of an in-universe way of how they would resolve this too.
The benevolent ruler is just a trope that is loved by liberals, it's at it's core just the old reform vs. revolution argument