Battlestar Galactica and slave labor

(Image from Wikipedia) The rebooted Battlestar Galactica is one of the first sci-fi series to address slave labor in a meaningful way. Other shows had attempted to show the brutality of such systems, notably Babylon 5 and Blake's 7, but these shows could only mention that brutality in passing. But in the Battlestar Galactica episode "Bastille Day," the connection between the U.S. labor force and the use of prison populations as indentured servants is made graphically clear. Zarek is a terrorist\freedom fighter who is opting to oppose the government, purportedly out of principle, but his opponents claim he is a man obsessed with power. Here is a description of Zerek's political platform, from the episode "Colonial Day"

"If things weren't so serious, I'd say that was funny. Look, there's no economy. There's no market, no industry, no capital. Money is worthless. And yet, we're all held hostage by the idea of the way things used to be. Look where we are. This man wakes up every morning, tugs o­n his boots and goes to work in this garden. Why, because it's his job? What job? He labors, but he gets no benefit! And he's not the o­nly o­ne. Many of us are just still going through the motions of our old lives. The lawyers still act like lawyers but they have no clients! Businessmen still act like businessmen but have no business! President Roslin and her policies are all about holding o­nto a fantasy! If we wanna survive, we need to completely restructure our lives. We need to think about the community of citizens. The group, not the individual. We need to completely free ourselves of the past, and operate as a collective. "

Hmm, sounds suspiciously like a Commie to me, or perhaps some form of anarchist. Collectivized thinking has never been popular in science fiction television, at least since Patrick Mcgoohan's famous Prisoner series, where he proclaimed "I am not a number, I am a free man." While the New Wave made Marxist thinking marginally more palatable to science fiction readers (see the left leaning works of Norman Spinrad and China Mieville ), science fiction has generally leaned right-libertarian, with an increasing emphasis on the libertarian aspect since the sixties (Gordon Dickson, H. Beam Piper, Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven, etc.) Therefore, its encouraging to see a sci-fi series at least discuss socialist ideals in a close to neutral setting, though the series always tends to imply that Zerek's acts of terrorism are unjustified, a position I do not agree with. Terrorrism correctness hampers the whole Zerek plot thread, as Adama and company always have to have the last word in defining why and for what reasons Zerek is in the wrong. At least that's my impression so far, about a third through the series (Hey I didn't have cable).

So, what hot button issues do you wish science fiction television addressed?