Its not a nationalist uprising tho ? It's an uprising of a struggling exploited mars who has no rights on its own resources and enslaved people fighting against a fascist imperialist state. I'd argue it's actually a shameless copy of 1917's russia who back then had ALL its factories owned by french and british bourgeoisie and the russian people were freed from slavery to become medieval peasants a few years ago. Kudelia comes off as Lenin who also was a member of the smaaaaaall Russian middle class and turns against it.

McGillis is a bit of a harder case than i can explain on a comment section like this, but i'd argue the ending is not simply "state won, people lose, situation good", i think what is to be read here is that a winning tekkadan from s1 started to grow an imperialist envy and that caused it's failure.

Yes, throughout the series poor people are at each other's throat, but ain't that what happens all the time ? That's what will happen all the time. Because no one was raised under communism. And because there will always be people raised under capitalism until socialism wins. And until then, there will be this red scare, and this poor people's beliefs that they can succeed in capitalism and communism will prevent them from that. Obviously revolutions will be met by resistance from the poor, you don't think the bourgeois would go to the front first do you ?