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I don't think Rand said that. If she did I'd like to read it. Cite please where she says she doesn't want minimal govt. (She did say she didn't want zero govt.)
by xenophanes 17y ago
I don't think Rand said that. If she did I'd like to read it. Cite please where she says she doesn't want minimal govt. (She did say she didn't want zero govt.)
- Semiapies 17y agoYes, and she repeatedly dismissed any non-Objectivists pursuing minimal government as anarchists. Anyone not under her sway simply couldn't be correct. Like the GOP, she talked a fine game about capitalism, but that is all.
- xenophanes 17y agoThat's an assertion. Do you have a cite?
- Semiapies 17y agoI'm not getting into a cite game on things Rand repeated so often that she said she was tired of people asking her about them. She repeatedly dismissed libertarianism as nothing more than a dressed-up leftist anarchist movement. Unless you have something more substantive to ask than "Oh, yeah?", we're done here.
- xenophanes 17y agoI have read a lot of Rand, both fiction and non-fiction, and never seen her say it once. Can you please point me to a source to read so I can correct my understanding of Rand's views?
- Semiapies 17y agoA good starting place would be googling "ayn rand" libertarianism. You will hit a lot of cited remarks by her among the hagiography and such.
- xenophanes 17y agoI read some. I found Rand trashing libertarians, but I did not find her trashing minimal government. Do you have any source on Rand not being an advocate of minimal government, as you claimed she is not? Here is a source where she does advocate minimal govt: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/government.html http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/government.html > The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman