A lot of people who would like to think of themselves as too sophisticated for star wars seem to want dune to be star wars (love both but dune is not a story about a heroic protagonist and his army of freedom fighters)
? His family gets sent to arrakis as a way to start them fighting with the another family to get them to stop being a threat to the emperor. And Paul is the product of a weird cults eugenics program to produce a messiah.
I can’t remember if there are slaves but his family is a vassal of the emperor and technically gets a “choice” if they accept. But there’s no choice is a fascist empire
