"This seems to me interesting, in part because the Star Wars films are so charmingly blind to their own complicity with fascist ideology. What I mean is that Lucas thinks he’s critiquing fascism, or at least dramatising the fight against fascism. The bad-guy Imperials with their Nazi-chic uniforms and their ruthless ways and all that. But of course the real fascists here are the peculiar warrior cult called the Jedi, Lucas’s hero-figures, who wield power in an unaccountable and unelected manner; who are genetic supermen dedicated to the arts of war at the expense of messy human entanglements, like sex (which, of course, they are forbidden). Who, most of all operate in the service of an obscure, exacting and fundamentally mystical system of beliefs; one that privileges a transcendent ‘oneness’ (referred to with the Hitlerian, or at least Nietzschean, moniker ‘the Force) over the diversity and hybridity of actual life. Their devotion to this cause gives them, they believe, the right to override all other moral obligations. These same Jedi in the course of Revenge of the Sith attempt to murder the democratically elected leader and instead enforce rule through their mystical beliefs."