The book doesn’t so much promote fascism as explore it. It’s more obvious when you read his other works that that’s just what he does, explore premises.
Stranger in a Strange Land came out less than 2 years later and depicts the creation of a free-love hippie space religion.
In a lot of ways the movie is a spoof of the book. Verhoeven famously hated the book and it’s depiction of military fascism.
The book doesn’t so much promote fascism as explore it. It’s more obvious when you read his other works that that’s just what he does, explore premises.
Stranger in a Strange Land came out less than 2 years later and depicts the creation of a free-love hippie space religion.