That’s a pretty funny take, I don’t even disagree with some of it (even if my reaction is the opposite), but I don’t know how you can call the film “openly capitalistic” when it’s basically the only Star Wars film that openly criticizes capitalism.
I said it is a capitalist mythos, not that the movie is openly capitalistic.
At some point in history, the medieval notion of history as a cycle that repeats itself over and over or even as a decaying cycle got replaced by a linear-progressive conception of civilization. The man of the XIX century considered himself as more civilized than the man from the XVIII and so on.
Think of Obi Wan saying the lightsabre was a weapon from a better era.
Now think of Luke implying that the Jedi of tomorrow will be better than the Jedi of yesterday.
It’s a diametrically opposite message. And it conveys a diametrically opposite aura or mythos for the movie.
That’s for myself. Regarding your comment, you mean it openly criticises capistalism because it shows rich people in the casino arc?