Science Fiction as a Fascist Enterprise

I am currently making my way through the second V miniseries, after watching the first one. As most of you no doubt know, V is an allegory, rather heavy handed, about fascism. Other science fiction series have conducted similar allegories over the years. Babylon 5's Earth plot thread was largely about fascism, as was the Dalek plot thread in Doctor Who (particularly after the introduction of Davros). Blake's 7, too, critiqued fascism in its own inimitable fashion.

Yet for me, science fiction itself can often be fascistic, particularly in its promotion of crude racialisms. This is most evidently seen in the Social Darwinian aspects of Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers and the works of H.G. Wells, both of which promoted a brutal "tooth and claw" philosophy that had more to do with 20th century capitalist ethics than it had to do with true Darwinian biology. Christian social critic James Herrick has called this tendency in science fiction "The Myth of the Spiritual Race" and points out its similarity to Aryan ubermensch philosophies, such as Hitler's. One need not agree with Herrick's personal philosophy to see that their is some validity to his claims. Norman Spinrad, for instance, famously critiqued those same racialisms in his novel Iron Dream. Personally, I am always a little uncomfortable with the wise-Zen like races of science fiction, such as the Dorsai, the Minbarri, and the Vulcans. There is an underlying hint of white worship here that deeply unsettles me. I think it would be better if science fiction refrained from constructing these kind of simplistic racial systems, with the good wise white men and the evil dark skinned aliens, but science fiction, unfortunately, is unlikely to do this anytime soon.