5b. The useful part of Social Credit: belief there was a disjunction between production & currency, emphasis on consumption as solution.
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5c.It's the focus on fiance capital as the scapegoat for all of capitalism's problems that made Social Credit attractive to the far right.
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6. In "Beyond This Horizon" bad-guys are would-be-Nazis who want to use eugenics not for overall social good but their own elite interests
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7. Only Robert Heinlein would be crazy enough to write an anit-Nazi novel that also advocates Eugenics & Social Credit.
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8. Or consider "Farnham's Freehold" (1964) a novel with ostensibly anti-racist agenda which is hard not to read as racist.
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9. Plot of "Farnham's Freehold" includes a future America controlled by slave-owing black cannibals.That's Heinlein's case for Civil Rights!
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10. "Friday" was Heinlein's would-be feminist novel. Opens with heroine getting raped and making a quip about it ("might as well lie back")
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11. Heinlein's intent with "Friday" seems to be to answer his feminist critics (he dedicates book to host of female science fiction writers)
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12. Yet as with "Farnham's Freehold," -- some perversity in Heinlein led him to write female-centric novel that hits all the wrong buttons.
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@theturner Yes, I'm sure it was. Vonnegut was definitely a RAH reader.
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