Hey I know alot of people in the comments will disagree with me and thats ok. I think my input is valid since I’ve been a OP fan since 2015 (no relation to the election lol) While I do see one piece as being very political. I do not see it endorsing any ideology in the sense of “this form of economic theory and society is superior to another. One Piece demonstrates that some monarchies, democracies and republics and indeed good. Examples are Water 7 and Alabasta. But One Piece also demonstrates that the vast majority of governments tend to be tyrannical. As for the world government, which is the biggest and most centralized gov, it is the most evil. Another point adding to my argument is Luffy (the MC) is symbolic of freedom in it’s entirety. He really does not care for what type of freedom he just wants freedom. One Piece is not marxist however. There isnt any appeal to a specific type of economic ideology. It shares some things in common with Marxism sure ill admit. But i would argue that it is more closer to being a Anarchist story, anarchy in the middle, not biased by economics than it is to being a general pro left story. And I myself am a anarchist so I am prone to viewing it from such an angle. Another thing is one of the series main villians is based on Marx, at least appearance wise and that is : Saint Saturn. That is all I would like to add. Oh and also Marx was not a good guy in real life, while this is not to attack his ideas, i do not think we need to respect the man himself because he was a hypocrite, massive racist, and capitalist crony himself
You're right about Marx not being a good guy. For most of his life he went from nation to nation. He'd start a newspaper and start propagandizing the workforce with communist propaganda in the attempt to cause a revolution so that he could become the dictator. His plan never succeeded and he was ejected from everywhere, even with the financial backing of the rothschild family. He was eventually exiled to England and when he realized that he would never succeed in overthrowing a nation and making himself a dictator, he abandoned communism altogether. He never had a shred of concern for the working man, he just had a technique that he was convinced would cause the working classes to grant him all of their political power so that he could take control of a nation. His main work is Das Kapital, but he gave up writing it so Engells had to finish it after he died.
Strangely, your video does not appear in my "watched videos" list. I ran it twice... It didn't appear. Sounds like you are absolutely right, since you're being obscured by RU-vid.
What are your thoughts on the flash back of the story of Noland during skypiea? I thought it was pretty weird, it was basically what if Christopher Columbus was actually a good guy. I thought the worst part was making it justified for their cultural/religious beliefs to be destroyed because it was diseased. Especially because so many native americans died from diseases from the colonizers in reality. I don’t really see people talk about it, it’s one of the only flaws in One Piece imo
To me in Noland's flashback he wasn't aware he had killed their god He thought he was saving a person about to be eaten. I also didn't get the feeling he destroyed their culture. He helped them treat their disease and told them where came from and how to prevent it. The Shandians maintrd their culture for centuries. It was the Skypeian's that colonized and marginalized them. And its clear those actions were seen as very bad, with Enel being the culmination of all of that. Then again I haven't watched Skypeia in years,my memory might be faulty Need to do that
What redeemes it somewhat is that Noland actually does respect their culture and tries to learn about it, and after he found out about the importance of the trees he regretted having cut them down.
This guy proves right off the bat that he doesn't understand one piece at all because his politics have blinded him. The Celestial dragons hold no political or economic power in the world government. They are kept in luxury and ease by the gorosei to act as a facade which the gorosei hide behind. The Celestial dragons are made the targets to draw the hate of the people, and are encouraged to abuse people because that further fixes the public eye on them. The Celestial dragons gave up their political power when they abandoned their kingdoms. They have no role in the world government, no positions within the navy, control of no industries, and no influence over the minds of the people. They are pets kept in a gilded cage that are completely out of touch with reality. The celestial dragons are not a ruling class. There is no ruling class, the rulers are the gorosei, i.e the gods. In One Piece, all of humanity are slaves to the tyranny of the gods, even those considered to be rulers. One piece is the story of prometheus. Joyboy stole fire from the heavens and gave it to mankind so he was punished by the Gods. That story is a summary of the void century. The fire nika stole was the infinite power of the sun. The gorosei are the gods that punished him for his transgression. The lessons found within One Piece are closer to greek mythology than social science. the conflict is between good and evil and mankind in one piece is subject to the whim of the gods. Their politics and economics are irrelevant. The only way they can achieve salvation is through the intervention of the sun god to get rid of the gorosei. And the perfect society in One Piece is a monarchy with a just king. The underlying political sensibility in one piece is social harmony. One Piece is Japanese and it communicates Japanese ideals, which is the duty of every person regardless of class to uphold social harmony. You see your politics in one piece because you've been trained to see the political theory of social science in everything whether it's there or not. it's like seeing a butterfly when you look at an ink blot.
