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Her psychopathic ideas made billionaires feel like victims and turned millions of followers into their doormats

How Ayn Rand became the new right's version of Marx | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

How Ayn Rand became the new right's version of Marx

Her psychopathic ideas made billionaires feel like victims and turned millions of followers into their doormats

It has a fair claim to be the ugliest philosophy the postwar world has produced. Selfishness, it contends, is good, altruism evil, empathy and compassion are irrational and destructive. The poor deserve to die; the rich deserve unmediated power.

she explained a philosophy she called Objectivism. This holds that the only moral course is pure self-interest. We owe nothing, she insists, to anyone, even to members of our own families. She described the poor and weak as "refuse" and "parasites", and excoriated anyone seeking to assist them. Apart from the police, the courts and the armed forces, there should be no role for government: no social security, no public health or education, no public infrastructure or transport, no fire service, no regulations, no income tax.

This is what the 'young guns' of the right venerate.

Drewski

Well......If my choices are Marx on the left and Rand on the Right....I will choose Freewill

Patradomous

Thank you Hunter Thompson

patsfan13

My bet is that no one talking about Ayn Rand ever read any of her books.

For the record I haven't read any of her books.

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."

Mrs.PatsFanInVa

You should give her a try, you'd love her.

patsfan13

I prefer Hayek, M Friedman and Von Mises.

You should give it a try you'd become a lot smarter.

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."

JackBauer

Do they include a primer on punctuation?

patsfan13

Didn't help me

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."

Holy Diver

Ayn Rand Received Social Security, Medicare « Patia Stephens

Ayn Rand Received Social Security, Medicare

Its like when you find out the anti-gay preacher is banging dudes for meth...

Mrs.PatsFanInVa

Are you implying I am not smart enough already? Because if you are, according to WP, that's a personal attack.