She was an idiot. Basically her views were those of the most extreme tea-party people today. She died decades ago. She was against ANY sort of help for the needy, any government regulation of business, etc.
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Who is Ayn Rand and what is Randism?
I got the impression she is some sort of libertarian but don't really understand what exactly Randism and her views are ...is it some sort of proto-capitalist anti state Libertarianism ?
I am from the UK and so somewhat unfamiliar with libertarians.
Lied der Internationalen Brigaden'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJD0e...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-He0...eature=related
'extreme' is relative to some idea of a 'neutral center', which is almost always the dominant ideology or status quo. by placing yourself in this imaginary 'center' you are simply supporting the established order, and making yourself irrelevant as a human being. - Zenga Zenga
She was an idiot. Basically her views were those of the most extreme tea-party people today. She died decades ago. She was against ANY sort of help for the needy, any government regulation of business, etc.
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Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.67 [/FONT]
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I do not understand philosophy very well, but I believe that objectivism is the thought that everything exists in its true form outside the human consciousness. I am not sure how this relates to her right libertarianism.
If you want to understand philosophy, I don't think objectivism will leave a very good taste in your mouth. After all the time I spent trying to understand her philosophy, I just realized it's the most incoherent shit excuse for a "philosophical theory". She is literally the worst philosopher to ever walk the Earth. Seriously.
Basically, Randoids split things into being objective and subjective (seemingly at random). All subjective things are usually called idealistic. They add timeless elements to objective things when it comes to humanity like capitalism has always existed and human nature is one of greed and paranoia and stuff. Objective things is stuff that is outside of human conciousness or can be measured scientifically or something. Concepts like good and evil are subjective hence aren't real and hence should be done away with. Politically, they want to have no government influence on anything and want the market to run everything. They don't like collective bargaining either or democracy in the form of mass democracy because it's against human nature or something. They think these things impede capitalism and they believe that true capitalism has never existed, that it's being held back by governments, that if only they were allowed to just be who they want to be then everyone would be happy and rich and if you weren't then you just weren't trying hard enough.
Some Russian lady obsessed with a serial killer.
Her philosophy is and always be irrelevant in the real world, her philosophy solely exists in the minds of her zombies and the places of the Internet in which they dwell.
"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents." - George Orwell
“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.” - Kurt Vonnegut
"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after." - Cat Stevens
Just a tad bit ironic.
Yes, I do have a sailors mouth. Did it offend you? Then toughen up you pussy penis!
Do to Iseuls claims I am a Sexist, I added penis!
I dont like being a wage slave =
"Using negative rep as a weapon against other people just reveals your cowardly and reactionary nature."
--Iseul
"And once again, the old dictum is confirmed that the worst product of fascism was 'anti-fascism'."
-- Zanthorus
I read one of her books once... It hurt me morally to do so, even though at the time I didn't even really know what communism is. Randism appeared too selfish for me to even bother with, so as soon as I finished Anthem I stopped thinking about her theories.
Suffice to say, the main plot of it was the word "I".
Left: 9.0
Libertarian: 5.5
Authority is when one idiot tells another idiot how to run his life. Revolt is when the second idiot begins to think.
Objectivism has four cornerstones:
1) Egoist ethics
2) Laissez-faire capitalism and minarchism
3) Objective reality (A=A)
4) Reason and rationality
She contributed to none of these principles significantly and most of it was already said before her. All she did was take a few principles joined them together and gave it a new name--much like Frankenstein.
Platitude sums it up.
Ayn Rand detested Libertarians. She described them as monstrous people. Yet today the modern internet warrior Right Libertarian worships her ideology.
Pampered princess who didn't understand that the poor aren't poor by choice.
Also she was an obsessive anti-communist even though the Russian revolution opened universities to women allowing her to be among the first group of women to enroll into her university.
Objectivism is nothing more than a pseudo-intellectual attempt at justifying being an asshole and exploiter of your fellow humans. Only Rand and her crazed followers even think of her as a philosopher.
Ayn Rand: ugly cheerleader for world capital.
Randism: cult.
Objectivist: fancy way of saying arrogant prick.
And if he start to scream, BAWM BAWM, have a nice dream, a true mothafucka going out for the loot.
"People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."-Col. Gaddafi.
"Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters or take any from you."-Edward Teach.
She's weird.I got the impression she is some sort of libertarian but don't really understand what exactly Randism and her views are ...is it some sort of proto-capitalist anti state Libertarianism ?
I am from the UK and so somewhat unfamiliar with libertarians.
Politically: She's essentially a Minarchist (the lowest amount of government possible without losing the army, the courts, and the police [all the things needed to defend private property]). She's in love with Capitalism, calling it the only moral system in the world.
Philisophically:
She goes through this thing about how things exist and we can truly percieve them, the world is real etc. Reason as the only way to determine existence and percieve reality. (We're relatively okay so far, minus her random denunciation of materialism for some reason) She also hates Kant, calling him the most evil man in history (after the holocaust btw)
Where it breaks down is where we start discussing the nature of man, she claims that man's moral and ethical goal is survival, and then she bases everything else off of that without justifying why that's the case. Further more, even accepting that on face, that's still no justification of why that means be a dick to everyone.
A good way to get familiar with her views is this site:
http://aynrandlexicon.com/
Pick a topic and you'll learn about her naive and misguided views on it.
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Objectivism is to philosophy as Scientology is to religion.
Correction, Objectivism is a religion.
[FONT=Arial]“Whoever labours becomes a proprietor... And when I say proprietor, I do not mean simply (as do our hypocritical economists) proprietor of his allowance, his salary, his wages, – I mean proprietor of the value he creates, and by which the master alone profits... The labourer retains, even after he has received his wages, a natural right in the thing he has produced.”[/FONT]-Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property?, pg. 123-4
You're right, my mistake.
