A parody on libertarianism?

Robert Heinlein's novel "The Moon is a harsh mistress" is said to be a positive novel about a libertarian revolution on the Moon. But is it really? That wasn't my impression upon reading it. To me, the novel sounds like a parody on libertarian revolutions, indeed of revolutions in general. Maybe I'm wrong, but if this is supposed to be a libertarian work, Heinlein was pretty good at hiding it!

The novel describes a libertarian, anti-racist and polyandrous society on the Moon, which is actually a penal colony of a largely socialist Earth. As long as the Moon is nominally a prison camp, life is relatively easy and relaxed. Problems only surface after the actual revolution, when the Moon becomes free. The revolution is "libertarian" and "democratic", but the first free elections are rigged by a sentient supercomputer, whose very existence is a secret known only by a few elect. The libertarians who lead (sic) the revolution are cadres organized in a hierarchic, clandestine party, similar to the Bolshevik Party. The inhabitants of the Luna colony even speak a garbled form of Russian (with a few Swedish phrases thrown in for good measure), and call each other "comrades". And why is the real leader of the revolt a secret computer?!

The story also features a character called the Professor, who claims to be a "rational anarchist". According to Wikipedia, the Professor is based on a real person, one Robert LeFevre. Personally, he rather made me think of Murray Rothbard, the elitist anarcho-capitalist who wanted to create a cadre organization.

Heinlein's anti-racism and sexual liberalism also shines through the novel at various points. The main character, Mannie, is apparently coloured. He gets arrested during a visit to the Deep South, after showing some reporters a photo of his multi-racial, polygamous family. It seems that the women are somehow in charge at the Luna colony, probably because there are so few of them (so the men must genuflect). The women also love to drive tourists mad, by showing off their nudity in public.

I haven't read all of Heinlein's novels, but I must admit that I didn't like the ones I've read so far. They strike me as frivolous, absurd or both.

But perhaps I just don't grok?