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That's an assertion. Do you have a cite?
by xenophanes 17y ago
That'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