I can see how it could be considered a Marxist struggle, but really it’s just the human struggle. They are ordinary people versus a Galaxy wide fascist regime. They trade for what they need and rebel against an unjust authority. An authority whose only goal is control and amassing power.

Owning the means would help, but you’d still be using money for trade and there would still be those who want to control others. Now you’re back to square one. You’d need to rewrite how people think and behave for society to ever progress in either forms of government.

Or maybe we should just all agree on a few truths and then encourage some assholes to do their jobs