You made some good points, I concede I was being overly reductive. I think you made a great summary of it.

I edited my previous comment to reflect how you changed my mind.

If I have the time and motivation when I'm home I'll rip the relevant portion of the commentary and upload.

Apprehensive of the horde of hungry poors looking at them and deciding that Bentley owners are back on the menu.

Very convenient of you to mentally gymnastics the explanation of how it's my fault that other people cannot engage in critical media analysis.

The Viet Cong are not the only rebels to have ever existed, the USSR is well known to use excessive military force against its own rebels.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Soviet_Union

The USSR was also a fascist dictatorship, the actual bureaucratic structure of the Galactic Empire much more closely resembles the USSR.

Edit: good points were made, it's overly reductive to call the USSR a facist dictatorship

Return of the Jedi special edition commentary.

Believe it or not, Lucas is capable of finding both positives and negatives about both the US and the USSR.

Most of the aesthetic of Empire architecture is inspired by brutalist Soviet architecture, and ceremony for the Emperor's arrival was inspired by October Revolution Day military parades.

That's partially true, the Empire was based on inspiration from the US, Nazi Germany, and USSR. The rebels are of course the Viet Cong.

Everything you said can be true, and it can also still sound like a cringe LARP.

Bezos III got his wealth from hard work and winning in the free market, with enough hard work and winning you can be rich and powerful just like Bezos.

Was this theory developed after Star Wars was already released?

"Imperial Core" is from Star Wars and sounds like a cringe LARP.