That's not quite what I was getting at but also in fairness I haven't read it in a good long while and may be mis-remembering.

As I said, long time since read and I might recall it poorly.

I'm way closer to Ayn Rand than Karl Marx but that still doesn't keep me from wanting to bash in my own brains halfway through Galt's 70-page long speech. It's hard for me to think of an author that doesn't do some strawman villains or mid-book author filibusters where they lecture on their pet ideology, and while its admittedly less onerous when I more or less agree with them the part that bugs me is when they do it for a long time, or devote half a page to it every blasted chapter. With Robinson its less that he's promoting socialism then that his capitalist are simply ridiculous caricatures and that he comes off so naive about the subject while clearly thinking himself an expert. I probably transfer some of that onto his science too, he's much harder than, say, Kevin J. Anderson, but I might look with greater scrutiny for his science screwups then I do at others.