I haven't read this, thanks for bringing it to my attention. BIG ENDER'S GAME SPOILERS AHEAD. EG as anti-fascist text: Buggers represent a perceived existentia

I haven't read this, thanks for bringing it to my attention. BIG ENDER'S GAME SPOILERS AHEAD. EG as anti-fascist text: Buggers represent a perceived existential threat. Humanity gets together and forms a single government which lives on past the threat. The first criticism of the new world order is in the very beginning, in which you learn that Ender is the son of parents of a persecuted religious minority sect that wants to have more than the allotted number of children (I read this as a libertarian viewpoint). The biggest anti-fascist gut punch comes when you see things from the Queen's perspective: "'The humans did not forgive us,' she thought. 'We will surely die.'" It turns out that the entire coordinated militaristic response was premised on misunderstanding and inability to communicate. Had only the humans had empathetic, loving leaders like Ender, they would have understood the Buggers, and vice versa, and no war; I read the book as being about tragic misunderstanding, and how reasonable responses to those misunderstandings can lead to Xenocide. But I do not think this functions as an argument for a stronger state. I also don't want to defend Card's out-of-book positions or much of the Shadow series. I just think Ender's Game itself holds up really well as a stand-alone piece of fiction. My 2 cents, the books are symbolically rich and I appreciate that there are pieces of evidence I've ignored or forgotten about that would put it in a very different light.