Free Association: Ayn Rand at Her Worst

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Ayn Rand at Her Worst

3 comments:

shemsky said...: Didn't she feel the same way about Native Americans as she did about the Arabs - that they were "savages" and therefore they had no rights?

Pure collectivist thinking on her part. What a shame.; August 22, 2012 at 6:49 PM
Sheldon Richman said...: On this issue she had no idea what she was talking about.; August 23, 2012 at 5:49 AM
JOR said...: shemsky, yeah, it was her basic attitude to all of the world's "uncivilized" natives whose property claims (whether tribal, common, or in many cases as "individualistic" as European property patterns) stood in the path of Western Civilization and Enlightenment Values.

It's an interesting contrast to her view of the civil war and Southern slave-holding, oddly enough. I guess funny-colored savages have no rights until they can be used as political rationalizations for the adventures of the US Military, which she seemed to regard as the embodiment of Reason, Justice, and Liberty for non-obvious reasons.; September 1, 2012 at 12:48 PM

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