Rand was not Austrian, she invented her own philosophy called objectivism. She got along with mises and rothbard loved atlas shrugged, but eventually wrote a play making fun of rand and a paper called the sociology of the Ayn Rand cult, her followers, and their cult like tendencies.
What she meant by selfish and altruism are different than how most people use the word. She meant selfish as self interest and altruism as helping others to your detriment.
Correct, and again her usage of it is a specialized term. Objectivism is her philosophy and how she handles the words selfish and altruism are different than how the words are typically understood.
Yes, she fled because the horrors of the communists.
Basically the state creates everything and nobody owns anything. You can steal and fight however way you want, it doesn't matter. It's true anarchy and everything slowly turns to shit. If you're an American think of drug dealers in trailer parks. That's communism. Just steal whatever you can, no education other than trying not to get caught and, if you do get caught, well, again that's communism.
__________________ Sig by Nuke Nixon Last Edited by Blakemore on Jan 1st, 2000, at 00:00 AM
Lol The Daily Beast. May as well post Daily Kos while you're using "credible sources".
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
I'm a market anarchist, which is the end conclusion of libertarian thought.
Establishment republicans (neo-cons) are all ex Marxists, specifically of a trotskyist slant. No shit I wouldn't sympathize with cucked lefties.
That's why people contrast neo-cons with what's called the old right, which was entirely compromised of proponents of small government and opponents of interventionism.
The shift from the old right to the new right aka establishment repubs aka the gop was largely instigated by Irving kristol, who was a Marxist.
Neo-conservatism started in the 1940s to maintain Western culture after the war. It's very restrictive against any ideology that doesn't fit their very narrow minded view of the good ol' days. This can apply to the presidencies of Eisenhower and Nixon. Reagan, however campaigned under neo-liberalism, which was mostly maintaining neo-conservatism, unless you can make a bigger profit.
Take cannabis for example, Nixon purged all information about cannabis and Vietnam to keep the population ignorant. Reagan's plan was to sell them the tools to publish the information, but invest in prisons to arrest anyone caught using it and force them to work in those prisons for our companies.
It's like picking slavery over genocide.
__________________ Sig by Nuke Nixon Last Edited by Blakemore on Jan 1st, 2000, at 00:00 AM
Although, I did want to mention the red scare under Eisenhower, which Reagan was a part of to stop socialised medicine. And I wanted to mention more about Vietnam protesters under Johnson and Nixon, but I think we all know that to death. Thank god the 80's showed us so many lovely films like The Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon and Apocalypse Now.
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