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There were a lot more parallels than that; use of the forth of july as a symbol, re-using the - declaration of independence, was it, or the constitution - as their base document (while the majority of characters didn't even originate in North America, and I suspect it will be quite some time now before the USA will again be considered as a model of freedom and enlightenment) (it's about eight years since I last reread it, so some of the details were a bit fuzzy) but it was more a transfer of generalised independence movements into a science fiction environment (sons of rock and boredom)
And it's a story about artificial intelligence, the economics of running a colony in non-lifesupporting places, the Heinlein social model of manners or else, of TANSTAAFL;
not just revolution and terrorism.