[Borges]

Weren’t Heinlein’s politics pretty nebulous? ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’ was adopted by the hippies.

[LexBaird]

Weren’t Heinlein’s politics pretty nebulous?

No. He was libertarian, through and through. He was about as opinionated and non-nebulous as an author gets. Imagine Ayn Rand with talent at writing.

Which only makes the twisting of ST into a fascist state all the more appalling. The regimented, centrally controlled insects were the symbolic totalitarians that the individualists of Earth had to cooperate to defeat.

[allmendream]

Well Heinlein is a tough nut to crack (and a bit of a perv)if one takes his writing as a personal statement of belief. But Starship Troopers stands alone as a testament that the old virtues are preserved for a reason and discarded at societies peril.