In the 1930s, Heinlein was a soft socialist-he was considered sufficiently left wing and 'unreliable' that he was not recalled for active duty in the US Navy during the second world war. I run this blog for my amusement and I have zero interest in movies/TV adaptations of this novel.Īnent the 'Heinlein was a fascist' accusations that are a hardy perennial on the internet, especially in discussions of Starship Troopers (the book, not the movie, which I have not seen because it's a movie): I'd like to offer a nuanced opinion. Stop with the movie discussion or I will start to delete comments.
NOTICE (as of comment 322): the discussion is about the book, not the Verhoeven movie, which I have not seen. ( I need to blog more often, so here's one of hopefully a series of shorter, more frequent, opinions.
