Chapter One - The Communist Anakin Awakens.

AN: HardcoreCommie is a comrade.

It was shortly after the death of Master Qui Gon Jinn that Obi Wan handed me a small, red book. It was quite an unassuming volume, dog eared and battered, with a simple but striking yellow cover design resembling a crossed hammer and sickle. The title was in bold black lettering. It read: The Communist Manifesto

"Read this over the holidays, Anakin." Obi Wan said. "And then we will talk."

And that, comrades… is how I learnt the truth.

"Anakin, you look different." Padme cried when I returned to Coruscant after the holidays.

I supposed I did, I had cut off my Padawan braid because it was an outward symbol of rank, and therefore a tool of classist oppression. I had grown my hair out and instead of my Jedi robes I was wearing a red Che Guevara T shirt. My lightsabre now formed the shape of a red hammer and sickle when activated.

"Why are you wearing a shirt with that terrorist on it?" Padme demanded.

"He is not a terrorist." I replied. "You have false consciousness and have been brainwashed by the elitist establishment. Che Guevara was actually a soldier who fought for the people's liberation."

"Most interesting, Anakin." Obi Wan commented, appearing beside Padme. Now that my eyes had been opened, I could better appreciate his immensely Communist facial hair and rugged, working-class good looks.

"Anakin," Padme looked at me with concern - and even a hint of fear - in her eyes. "Have you become a Communist?"

"Yes." I said proudly, I had nothing to hide.

Padme looked very afraid in a bourgeois manner. No doubt she was concerned about losing her private property, not to mention the influence she exerted as part of the veneer of fair government and equality that was the Galactic Senate. Everyone knew that the Senate was really just full of corporatist and elitist shills who sought to mask the fact that the galaxy was run by a greedy fascist agenda.

"But Palpatine says that Communism is evil and doesn't work." Padme cried. "Why would he say that if it wasn't true?"

I sighed, it seemed that Padme's false consciousness ran deep… perhaps even too deep for me to correct.