Heinlein and politics?

[Brys]

That's probably why I don't like Heinlein much - I don't like didactic fiction. I like politics, but if I want to see a complex political argument about a different point of view, I'll read a non-fiction book which can argue the points much better. I agree with Erikson ("Didactic fiction is a bore") and Mieville on this - Mieville saying that

Just because you are a leftist writer doesn't mean that you have to be into propaganda. I would never try to convince someone of socialism through my novels. It would probably make a very bad novel, and a very bad case of socialism. Nevertheless, you do want to have some sort of political texture to the books.

I think that applies equally to the right as to the left.