Danaeres story was so orientalist that her 'turn' made me think that there was a deconstruction hidden there that got lost in adaptation.
When social life is organised for the production of commodities people will start identifying with their their commodities. Once they tie their personal value to that of their commodity, such as a house, an assault on the value of their property is seen as equal to an assault on their person.
1733: Russia’s Empress declares Roma to be slaves to the crown
Medieval kingdoms did similar things to Jews. Supposedly sometimes it was a stupid attempt to curb anti-semitism; because if the jews were crown property than a pogrom is an attack on the crown. Naturally the next king would ignore this context and expropriate Jewish property because it was 'his.'
The ideological gap between the various left wing ideologies is far wider than that within liberalism and between liberalism and the far right.
And that's without consider how much people here love telling each other to 'read theory.' A term which encompasses an ever larger number of books.
Communist countries invested in people over capital. If a person fled west they took their investment with them so to speak.
Funnily enough, racism trumped anticommunism. Many potential migrants from VN & China were discouraged because westerners didnt recognise their degrees. (That probably changed in the past decade ).