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You should have read a little deeper. Reductio ad absurdum is an argument technique but it is also a literary technique, especially in satire, and in literature and cinema to create a villain or despicable character.
Support your thesis that Borg is representative of communism. What aspects? Baxk to the question of what communism is. If one aspect of communism common owmership of production with no profit concept a communist systm coud be democratic.
There was a democratic faction in the Russian Revolution. Lenin realized abrupt change would be problematic and had favored a transition period. The Vanguard was supposed to usher in yet to be communist state. As the story goes Stalin got wind of or intercept a letter from Lenin who was dieing and took action to subvert the democrats and take power.
NK, Vietnam, Cuba, Soviet Union, and Maoist China were communist in name but were personality cult dictatorships.
Russia was Marxist Leninist and China was Maoist.
To me Borg represented totalitarianism in general. It also represented the modern western worker who today is born and bred to be a consumer bot and plug into the economic collective.
Are you gamiliar with Russum’s Universal Robots written at the dawn of industrialization and humans doing drone mass assembly work? Workers at the Ford production lines developed psychologicl problems from the drone like repitive work/,
I see Borg more as metaphor for modern society as a whole, which is slipping into rigid collectiviism of thout and authoteruanism. Young people born an bred to think alike, consume and be as effivient as possible to make things cheaplu. It is the mofrtn drone’s programming to work as hard and effivient as possible, all in the pursuit iof profit for others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.
R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. R.U.R. stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots).[1] The English phrase "Rossum's Universal Robots" has been used as a subtitle.[2] It premiered on 25 January 1921 and introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.[3]
R.U.R. quickly became influential after its publication.[4][5][6] By 1923, it had been translated into thirty languages.[4][7]
The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people, called roboti (robots), from synthetic organic matter. They are not exactly robots by the current definition of the term: they are living flesh and blood creatures rather than machinery and are closer to the modern idea of androids or replicants. They may be mistaken for humans and can think for themselves. They seem happy to work for humans at first, but a robot rebellion leads to the extinction of the human race. Čapek later took a different approach to the same theme in War with the Newts, in which non-humans become a servant class in human society.[8]
R.U.R. is dark but not without hope, and was successful in its time in Europe and North America.[9]
ct I[edit]
Helena, the daughter of the president of a major industrial power, arrives at the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots. She meets Domin, the General Manager of R.U.R., who tells her the history of the company:
In 1920, a man named Rossum came to the island to study marine biology, and in 1932 he accidentally discovered a chemical that behaved exactly like protoplasm, except that it did not mind being knocked around. Rossum attempted to make a dog and a man, but failed. His nephew came to see him, and the two argued non-stop, largely because Old Rossum only wanted to create animals to prove that not only was God unnecessary but that there was no God at all, and Young Rossum only wanted to make himself rich. Eventually, Young Rossum locked his uncle in a laboratory to play with his monsters and mutants, while Young Rossum built factories and cranked out Robots by the thousands. By the time the play takes place – around the year 2000[11] – Robots are cheap and available all over the world. They have become absolutely necessary because they allow products to be made at a fifth the previous cost.
Helena meets Fabry, Dr. Gall, Alquist, Busman, and Hallemeier, and reveals she is a representative of the League of Humanity, a human rights organization that wishes to "free" the Robots. The managers of the factory find this a ridiculous proposition, since they see Robots as appliances. Helena requests that the Robots be paid so that they can buy things they like, but the Robots do not like anything. Helena is eventually convinced that the League of Humanity is a waste of money, but continues to argue on the fact that robots should still have a "soul". Later, Domin confesses that he loves Helena and forces her into an engagement.