uh ... it's _partially_ about fascism. Heinlein wasn't endorsing the political system in SST as the best, or as the worst. He was holding it up, inspecting it, playing with it. Just like Neal Stephenson does with social systtem in... basically, every book. https://twitter.com/HumungusEternal/status/1294247997186940935 …
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Damnit, I need to read it again then. I think we've had this exact exchange before
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Don't know about that but quite a bit of the book is set before he even joined the military, with some pretty standard Heinlein infodumps from his Moral Philosophy teacher about how their system works and why it works that way.
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