Read a lot of Heinlein, but not that one. Are you sure it wasn’t satire?
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InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 6 hours agoThe movie was. The book was sympathetic.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It is a bit complicated. AH would have been a ww2 vet and I am not sure i would say is pro nazi, but he is rather right leaning and glorifying of war in his ways (he did miss out on combat and it seems to be resentful in a way).
The book is not satirical.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
My read from the books I’ve read, he’s a conservative libertarian, he didn’t seem to like organized religion but believe in religion and spirituality.
teft@piefed.social 28 minutes ago
Have you read Stranger in a Strange Land? That reads like he’s a hippy, not a conservative.
FatCrab@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
It really wasn’t. Heinlein did not write Starship Troopers as an aspirational piece of milscifi and, while he definitely had some questionable politics, my understanding is that he was effectively thinking aloud as he wrote the book.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
It’s hard to tell where his beliefs end and pondering began honestly. I’ve read a few of his works and it is strongly bent toward the every man trope if I remember right. Of how an individual needs to be skilled in most areas, self actualizing, independent. Reads like a conservative libertarian view to me honestly. Add in Starship Troopers itself really plays that strong and talks about military might makes right, it’s hard not to see it as positive toward warfare.