"'...some of the colonies were not quite happy with the idea of being incorporated into the Venusian Federation. They preferred to stay with their mother countries, or even to be independent. Some fighting ensued, and they must still be watched.'" (IV, p. 188)
That is one reason why the Federation has a political police force, the Guardian Corps. The other reasons are:
to protect this vulnerable new society from "'...subversive radical ideas...'" (pp. 188-189);
to constitute "'...the nucleus of our future army and space navy.'" (p. 189)
National armed forces have been abolished on Earth but are to be re-created on Venus. One man's subversion is another man's common sense. New societies need radical ideas.
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Kaor, Paul!
What * I * thought was that mention of building up a nucleus of a future army and space navy by Venus was very ominous. What it meant was the Venusian Federation was secretly nursing ambitions of building up means of waging aggressive wars. Of becoming a THREAT to Earth.
If the Federation had been content with just Venus and terraforming the planet, there would have been little need and even less justification for the UN to meddle in its affairs.
And the only "radical" ideas that has truly worked in politics and economics has been the LIMITED state and free enterprise economics.
Ad astra! Sean
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