Ilya Somin, an associate professor at the George Mason School of Law and a blogger at the libertarian-leaning Volokh Conspiracy, speaks on the contradiction between the political structure and the economic system of the Federation:
Themes of Liberty in Star Trek
That bit at the end in which he makes the tongue-in-cheek proposition that the humans force the other races to pay tribute to Earth in order to maintain Earth's socialistic paradise is especially amusing. Oh, and as you might expect, DS9 is praised for being more nuanced.
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