It is with some trepidation that I write about the politics of Star Wars. My previous LewRockwell.com column on Japanese animation elicited an e-mail telling me, in effect, to get a life. Oh, well. Too late for that. Libertarian writer Todd Seavey sees anti-capitalism at the heart Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones. He notes that the titular villains of Attack of the Clones are the Trade Federation, the Banking Guild and other groups associated with commerce. And he writes that their leader, Nute Gunray, is "an arch-capitalist, tax-protesting, trade-loving, quasi-Japanese villain." Even Nute Gunray’s name seems … Continue reading When Clones Attack