Re: Starship Troopers Government
From: Popeyesays@a...
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:14:49 EST
Subject: 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?