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    Movies Starship Troopers: The bugs did nothing wrong

    Well I would start with: Then: Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (2008) Turner, Henry A. (1985). German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler. Oxford University Press. Schweitzer, Arthur (1964). Big Business in the Third Reich. Bloomington: Indiana...
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    Movies Starship Troopers: The bugs did nothing wrong

    I usually go by the Oxford English Dictionary definition. Which one of its numerous sub-dictionaries helpfully expands too ... This does not necessarily include anything to do with Social Welfare or the Bismarckian idea of State Socialism. (Or preclude state control of matters of national...
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    Movies Starship Troopers: The bugs did nothing wrong

    Try telling people that modern social welfare systems are essentially bribery by the ruling class to keep the workers in line? (Akin to the Roman Imperial system of Bread & Circuses) The State Socialism of the modern era was begun by Otto von Bismarck* to undercut the Socialists, they hated it...
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    Movies Starship Troopers: The bugs did nothing wrong

    1. The Nazis were very keen on the private ownership of land. And the first recorded land tax dates to 3000BC! 2. The Nazis were almost pathologically Middle Class. And the Roman Republic used progressive taxation. (The citizens considered it a point of pride to be able to pay as it was a mark...
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    Movies Starship Troopers: The bugs did nothing wrong

    Seriously where are you getting that from? Ed Neumeier doesn't seem to have any profound political positions, Heinlein described himself as a Libertarian, and Verhoeven is defined by his Anti-Fascism. Growing up in Nazi Occupied Holland will do that to you.
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