Re: Ayn Rand

Quote from: abbyd on April 25, 2013, 04:23:52 PM

Quote from: Templeton on April 25, 2013, 02:34:46 PM

Actions speak louder than words. Ayn Rand may have put on appearances of free-thinking and libertarianism, but the "cult" she organized around her was authoritarian and relied heavily on group think (insofar as, you were OUT if you didn't tow the randian line). For further reading I'd direct you to this short and entertaining Murry Rothbard essay:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard23.html

+1 - Rothbard doesn't buy her brand of crap. Currently reading his "For a New Liberty".

MANY Randkooks don't really know that much about her. There is also the matter of her diary entries praising a serial killer:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/08/mark-ames-paul-ryans-guru-ayn-rand-worshipped-a-serial-killer-who-kidnapped-and-dismembered-little-girls.html
You can't make this stuff up.

I believe she said she was investigating the serial killer, she never worshiped a serial killer. She wrote a book on a polish actress. That what these anti-rand morons always go to. They will say she collected social security, well duh they offered it to her. Just so stupid. They will say Ryan and Rand were followers, they fail to mention Steve Jobs and Mark Cuban are too.