I’m quite familiar with the Starship Troopers franchise, but it’s been described as a parody of Heinlen’s work rather than being true to it.
What were his philosophies, and were they actually so fascist and controversial that all the movies based on his work had to be made into parodies?
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I’m assuming you didn’t read the book and have just seen the movie/tv shows?
Maybe my memory is faulty, it’s been several years, but in the book at least, I didn’t take it as fascism. It’s certainly a heavily militarized society on a war footing — maybe as an invented crisis to galvanize support. From what I remember of his description of society in the book though, it’s more like WW2 America than it is like a properly fascist country.
He was more right-leaning libertarian than anything else.
I personally don’t subscribe to his ideology, but I do like his books a lot! If you’re interested in his stuff, I’d suggest *The Moon is a Harsh Mistress* and *A Stranger in a Strange Land* for a more multi-dimensional and nuanced version of his personal political views.
*Stranger in a Strange Land* follows and paints a good picture of a free-thinking, free-love new-age religion and mocks mega church Christianity.
*Moon is a Harsh Mistress* is about freedom fighters trying to overthrow their colonial rulers.
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