Editing Starship Troopers (section)

====Leftists====
The book's got ''some'' evidence to support the first viewpoint - the simple fact that the founding of the Federation reads like a classic fascist's wet dream of manly, hard-headed soldiers standing up to reassert social order when a decadent, failing democratic government is in a state of collapse (see the rise of Fascism in Italy and the Freikorps after WW1). However, the people arguing this - including many leftists and those playing at leftism - are also, as a rule, heavily influenced by Verhoeven's movie. Said movie not only threw in a bunch of direct parallels to historical fascist movements (an asteroid attack being a false-flag operation, for instance, as with all those false-flag attacks made by fascist powers during the lead-up to WW II to manufacture casus belli and justify naked aggression), but played up the Nazi fashion of the cast. Additionally, while denying them franchise without civil service, The Federation has a great deal of legal protection for its non-citizen population. In the end, a lot of them end up arguing against the idealized view of stratocratic government the book presents; while they aren't wrong ''historically'', well... it's also a ''book'', and Heinlein isn't supporting that form of government, either.