March 17, 2005
Ayn Rand
100 years after her birthday, Reason magazine remembers on e of the most controversial women of the 20th century. Rand was an American immigrant from the Soviet Union; she left her family behind to escape to the U.S. (1926) where she founded and led the objectivist movement, advocating individualism, reason and capitalism for the rest of her life.
You should also visit the Ayn Rand Institute. It contains an extensive archive of her works and many reports and comments on current events by some of her close friends and promoters of objectivism.
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“To stop at objectivity is the standpoint of “Objectivism”, withholding critical appraisal and partisan intervention, thus abstaining from life.”
– enough said.
I READ: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/slobject.htm
Comment on March 18, 2005 11:25 pmMurray N. Rothbard (”the founder of modern libertarianism and the dean of the Austrian School of economics…. He was also academic vice president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and the Center for Libertarian Studies…”) wrote a play, “Mozart Was a Red”, about the Ayn Rand cult.
The full text is to be found here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/mozart.html
with an introduction by Justin Raimondo, who writes: “In her nonfiction tirades, Rand quotes mainly from her own works; this was due not only to her inflated self-estimate, but also to a colossal IGNORANCE. She read almost nothing but detective novels, and her followers, usually considerably younger, were even worse. Although her philosophy of rational self-interest was an ECCENTRIC MODERN VARIATION ON A MUCH OLDER PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION, the only precedent she acknowledged was Aristotle.”
Comment on March 24, 2005 03:14 pm