Re: Starship Troopers Government

In a message dated 3/16/00 9:56:16 PM Central Standard Time, 
aebrain@dynamite.com.au writes:

<< 
 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.
  >>

Particularly grievous to me is the idea that Heinlein extolled war -
SST's 
world was unified and at peace until the Bugs came along - what is more 
politically correct than a functioning world embracing peacefully
oriented 
government?