recently saw the
>starship troopers is fascist
meme, and i went to re-read the book. i can see how the federation might be fascist, or specifically how civil service is fascist, but i don't really agree.
what are some good critical analysis essays/papers on heinlein's starship troopers?
Why don't you agree?
I don't think they're Fascist either mind
well if starship troopers is guilty of anything, it would be utopianism.
i forgot to elaborate in my OP that i'm also very lacking in political sciences, so i that's why i'm asking for essays that analyze the book.
It's an obvious satire.
No, heilein was just an idiot.
it's pretty sad that i have no idea if you're saying the film is satire, the meme is satire, or the federation is satire.
I've never read the novel, but from what I remember of the movie the Federation was pretty clearly fascist. I always heard the two are radically different in tone, but is the Federation outlined differently between them?
i dont know how you tell militarist from fascist
The biggest criticism of the film was that it made the Federation overtly fascist because the film makers thought that the book glorified that.
So yes, Film-Federation is absolutely fascist, but its kind of a strawman.
Militarist is a description of a state's behavior, fascism is a description of their style of government. Most fascist states are also overtly militaristic, some non-fascist states are as well. It'd be pretty strange for a fascist state to exist that wasn't militaristic, it would essentially have no purpose.