The book "Starship Troopers" was not meant as a farce, and was a serious contemplation of the response to the threat of expanding communism. The speeches of Raczak in the book are a very clear, full-throated, serious discussion of the advantages of the current (fictional) system of government (which included overt…

The book "Starship Troopers" was not meant as a farce, and was a serious contemplation of the response to the threat of expanding communism. The speeches of Raczak in the book are a very clear, full-throated, serious discussion of the advantages of the current (fictional) system of government (which included overt…