A good disucssion of
Rand and the
Right at the Dish.
Labels: American Right, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, the Dish
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Unknown said on
April 21, 2011 at 7:30 PM
Her view of economics divided the world into a contest between "moochers" and "producers."
http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/150680/the_truth_about_gop_hero_ayn_rand/?page=2
Have you read William Graham Sumner's 'What Social Classes Owe to Each-other'? Both Rand and Sumner advocate for what some refer to as "Inverted Marxism." I've read Sumner, not Rand, but from what I've read about her she seems to have the same attitude as Sumner towards economics. The same view, it seems, as Paul Ryan.
Brendan James said on
April 21, 2011 at 8:04 PM
To me, the problems of Randian anarcho-capitalism are innumerable.
At the moment I’m writing about law and order: In Rand’s ideal society, with every social good decided by the market and supplied by private firms, we would see things like police forces catering to the largest market, i.e. the majority ethnicity, religious group and/or social class—you can imagine what sort of justice would be enforced in this reality. Michael Taylor tackled some of these problems quite well.
The idea that this scheme would provide public goods such as social order and justice dissolves after a couple of simple thought experiments.
To be germane, I’ve posted a clip of Rand on the Palestinian question above. We can continue this chat up there, if you like.
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