There’s a ton of commentary out there on this but tl;dr Miyazaki was a Marxist in his youth and is probably best recently described as an ecosocialist and all his works reflect values of anti authoritarianism, rejecting patriarchy, environmentalism, and pacifism or at least the rejection of militarism.
He is, in short, a Japanese Green (not literally since there is a Japanese Green party but also possibly literally)
“I’d rather be a pig than a fascist” sounds pretty leftist to me.
Maybe these days. But there’s a gap between being anti-fascist and leftist that includes ideologies that range from center-right to center-left
At least there used to be.
There’s a ton of commentary out there on this but tl;dr Miyazaki was a Marxist in his youth and is probably best recently described as an ecosocialist and all his works reflect values of anti authoritarianism, rejecting patriarchy, environmentalism, and pacifism or at least the rejection of militarism.
He is, in short, a Japanese Green (not literally since there is a Japanese Green party but also possibly literally)