Re: [Marxism] Robert Heinlein: rightwing nutjob

[David McDonald <dbmcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Tom O'Lincoln" <suarsos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Subject: [Marxism] Robert Heinlein: rightwing nutjob
>
> In "The Roads Must Roll" he glamourises strike breaking. On the other hand,
> I don't remember most of his writing as being particularly political. It
> was more the (implicitly right wing) "common sense" of the engineer that
> came through.
>
David:

Yeah baby. He was an early and nutty libertarian. He hated unions, but he
supported women after a fashion. He loved writing about putting political
movements together, but they were usually conspiracies writ large, like in
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Farnhams Freehold is probably his most
political book and it sucks, a plodding paeon to one man's holding onto
what's his in a bleak, conquered future.

Nevertheless, Podkayne of Mars is great stuff, The Door Into Summer a
classic and Citizen of the Galaxy, wherein I met the concept of divorcing
one's parents, won me to science fiction for decades. For general sci-fi
swashbuckling Glory Road is great

If you want to read left wing science fiction, try Mother of Demons, Eric
Flint, Baen Books, in print. Info at amazon.

David McDonald


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