with a tagline like "people should not be afraid of the government, the government should be afraid of the people" how is this going to be leftist propaganda? sounds like the perfect conservative setup of a government- a government afraid of its people wouldn't stomp all over the peoples rights.
In the book, the main character is an anarchist.
I doubt thats the case in the movie, and I know the writer of the book has renounced the movie.