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“Ayn Rand, of course, was a kind of politicized L. Ron Hubbard—a novelist-philosopher who inspired a cult of acolytes who deem her the greatest human being who ever lived. The enduring heart of Rand’s totalistic philosophy was Marxism flipped upside down. Rand viewed the capitalists, not the workers, as the producers of all wealth, and the workers, not the capitalists, as useless parasites.”

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The GOP’s War on the Poor (via azspot)

So much Rand hate today.  I find it entertaining how each political party puts Rand to some sort of ideological (or anti) extreme.  Rhetorical question: can the capitalists not be workers as well?

Let’s be honest, how about those who chose to discuss Ayn Rand first learn how to pronounce her name correctly and secondly read her books before formulating some sort of insult based on hearsay.  Educate yourself through the source, not someone else’s opinion.  You’re given a brain; use it.

(I am neither for nor against Rand completely.  I just find some comments irritating.)

(via lindsaydinkins)

This response tells me not that you’ve never read Rand, but that you’ve never read Marx. This particular quote uses the term capitalist in the Marxist form that is synonymous with bourgeoisie, not person who ascribes to capitalist ideologies. Therefore this is not a matter of whether or not workers can be capitalists, but a statement that in Rand’s world, it is solely the financiers of our economic system that create wealth. It is a statement that in Rand’s world, the hands that mix in their labor to create goods and services are merely another tool necessary to meeting an end and that it is the people who trifle with that labor by giving as little as possible in return for their efforts that should be admired.

It is hopelessly naïve to believe, as Rand did in her belief in ethical egoism and creating of objectivism that laborers might benefit in a way remotely proportionate to the benefits received by a self-serving bourgeoisie and that is what is at stake. See: trickle-down economics. Q.E.D., M.F.