I would expect better comprehension or intelligence. Star Fleet and most major races in Star Trek do not meet the basic qualifications for communism. Private property exists and there is no system by which things are “comunal property.” We see routinely throughout the series they do not exist in a “classless society.” Even among a single advanced people such as Earth, we have repeatedly seen that there are differences in the way people live and what resources or opportunities they might have.
We see a lot of capitalism or commerce that appears very similar to capitalism throughout the galaxy, but developed and advanced worlds exist in a state of semi post scarcity. Economics as we know it doesn’t exactly exist and what comes close to what we know as economics tends to be a byproduct of races at different levels of advancement or with competing goals and ideologies needing ways to facilitate transfer.
We see a lot of capitalism or commerce that appears very similar to capitalism throughout the galaxy, but developed and advanced worlds exist in a state of semi post scarcity. Economics as we know it doesn’t exactly exist and what comes close to what we know as economics tends to be a byproduct of races at different levels of advancement or with competing goals and ideologies needing ways to facilitate transfer.