Posted on 04/11/2017 5:05:25 AM PDT by whodathunkit
As they plough through their GCSE revision, UK students planning to take politics A-level in the autumn can comfort themselves with this thought: come September, they will be studying one thinker who does not belong in the dusty archives of ancient political theory but is achingly on trend. For the curriculum includes a new addition: the work of Ayn Rand.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Surprisingly sane for the Guardian.
” The Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, is so committed a Randian, he was famous for giving every new member of his staff a copy of Rand’s gargantuan novel, Atlas Shrugged...”
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Except Paul Ryan uses the book as a how-to guide for running the federal leviathan to loot from the producers. Paul Ryan is Wesley Mouch.
Ayn Rand was a globalist Free Trader. meh.
From the article: “The Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, is so committed a Randian, he was famous for giving every new member of his staff a copy of Rand’s gargantuan novel, Atlas Shrugged...”
This statement is laughable. Lyin’ Ryan sure as hell ain’t no Randian. And neither are all the Marxocrat-sponsoring shills and other perverts that populate Silicon Valley and Moscow on Puget Sound. The list is long of pretenders who have claimed allegiance to Rand’s brand of liberty and freedom but who have failed to toe the party line when the rubber hit the road. Exhibit A is Alan Greenspan, Rand’s treacherous protege, who she had the good sense to call out as an apostate when she was still alive.
She was a fair trader, not just free. When America’s wealth was being unjustly sent overseas she had a pirate steal it and bring it back.
Interesting article. I saw and read it yesterday. It was linked yesterday on Drudge. Thanks for posting.
That is where I found it as well.
The writer provides a differing view than I have.
He reflects an understanding that isn’t biased by my admittedly ‘individualistic’ ideas, and I can appreciate that.
Perhaps it’s an insight that reveals the divisiveness that the mere mention of the name ‘Rand’ evokes.
One thing that stands out in the article though, is that the last sentence is not in keeping with the tone of the article. Oddly, I get the idea that an editor, down the line, said “this will not do, not at all” and insisted on adding the pejoratives.
We now know who the real John Galt is.
One thing that stands out in the article though, is that the last sentence is not in keeping with the tone of the article. Oddly, I get the idea that an editor, down the line, said “this will not do, not at all” and insisted on adding the pejoratives.
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I give you a 99% chance of being correct with your editor idea. OK, make that 99.9%.
Altruism is the sacrifice of values. That is anti-life. Life requires the gaining and keeping of values.
Individualism is rational because reason is a characteristic of the individual and reason is man's main means of survival and knowledge.
Selfishness is one's concern for one's own well being and self interests and is necessary for life.
Thx for posting. Saw on Drudge and was going to post but saw yours.
Thought the article was well written if not bent somewhat on how to allow leftists to claim to be Randians
Typical poke at Trump who is portrayed as too stupid to read Yet somehow smart enough to beat the know it alls
One of the commenters for this article at The Guardian claimed that capitalism is in its “final, most destructive phase.”
I couldn’t resist replying that “for marxists, capitalism (a marxist term; “free enterprise,” a natural extension and sophistication of the ancient barter system between primitive populations, would be a better one) has been in its “final, most destructive” phase since about, oh, say, 1870 or so. What a long, strange “final” phase it’s been.
And here, I’d just like to add that the absurd ability marxists assign to themselves to predict the future based on a weird concept like “dialectical materialism,” which, as any thinking person should know, does not describe reality, is perhaps the least attractive aspect of the doctrine, which is really saying something, since so much of the doctrine is so laughably unattractive.
Rand ping.
hmmm. What’s worse, communism or atheist capitalism?
“Ayn Rand Led Me to Christ”
How the anti-Christian philosopher prepared me to hear the gospel.
Bishop Edward S. Little II/ JUNE 29, 2011
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/june/aynrandled.html
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