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This mainly comes from people who have only seen Verhoeven's film or completely misinterpret the book for the sake of conforming to their own worldview.People who say ST is "fascist" couldn't define fascism if their life depended on it. They only do it because Neil Patrick Harris and his unit wear uniforms that make them look like the SS. It's so fucking dumb.
You have no idea how much complete and utter disdain I and many others have for Paul Verhoeven. He deliberately butchered the movie because he didn't like the book. He cannot think outside of the current political paradigm and cannot foresee any other systems than the ones that currently exist. With that said, the most accurate way I'd describe Starship Troopers (the book) is that it's a Liberal Stratocracy. People who don't have the franchise still have civil liberties and if you read the book the civilians are allowed to complain without being imprisoned.I'm sorry to tell you that Paul Verhoeven is a giant sissy bitch who put down Heinlein's novel after 5 pages, decried it as fascist, and then deliberately made ST into a big parody.
This is more like the United States back before universal suffrage (Early 1800s), but it's Federal Service as opposed to property ownership that gives one the right to vote. This is a sharp contrast to both major forms of Hegelian Totalitarianism (Fascism and Communism respectively) which would put people in work camps or mental institutions (in the Soviets' case) over any sort of political dissent.
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