PuckSR t1_itnceed wrote
Reply to comment by Fafnir26 in Anyone else finding the Politics of Starship Troopers troubling? by Fafnir26
His other book basically advocates for a post-scarcity communist Utopia where space-Jesus comes down and dies for our sins so that we can all live in what is essentially equivalent to a hippy commune.
The entire book (Starship Troopers) is presented from the perspective of an 18yo who joined the military for glory.
Now, as for the civil service thing? He basically copied the dual-level citizenship of countries like Rome, where there was a difference between having voting rights and being protected. Heck, even some stock shares operate on a similar principle.
I don't think you could view that election system as fascist and that is just about the only thing in the book that isn't presented as a mistake.
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