I wouldn’t say the Starship Troopers government was fascist, but Heinlein clearly thinks they are doing things pretty well. The fact that the creation process of that government avoided fascism with no difficulty (it isn’t considered worth mentioning in the history) is precisely the lack of realism that I am criticizing.
I read Starship Troopers as a critique of fascism, not its endorsement, but I could be wrong...
I wouldn’t say the Starship Troopers government was fascist, but Heinlein clearly thinks they are doing things pretty well. The fact that the creation process of that government avoided fascism with no difficulty (it isn’t considered worth mentioning in the history) is precisely the lack of realism that I am criticizing.
Hmm, I could be confusing the book with the movie. I’ll need to re-read it again.