Re: Starship Troopers Government

>It always amuses me how many peg Heinlein as a fascist because he wrote
a
>*science fiction* novel about a hypothetical future government. 

I've always been rather dismissive of the claim that Heinlein's SST
government
is Fascist. Yet perhaps, in the strictest sense of the term, it is. Just
as
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal" is strictly National Socialism -
Nazi
in the German. And the USA is strictly a Revolutionary People's
Democratic Republic.

But SST's government bears as much resemblance to what is normally
thought of
as Fascism as FDR does to Uncle Adolf, and the USA does to North Korea.

There, I've mentioned A.Hitler so by the usual rules, this thread is now
closed,
everything useful having been said.