AHC: Objectivist State in the Third World

Of possible interest: Back in the early 1980's, a guy named Lee Correy (who also wrote a Star Trek novel called The Abode of Life) wrote a novel titled Manna about a Libertarian state in East Africa sometime in the early 21st century. I don't know that it espoused Randian philosophy as such, but it was a pretty crazy mix of Libertarian wank and John Birch Society-esque conspiracy theory.

OK, here it is. "Lee Correy" was actually a pen name for G. Harry Stine. This is the Amazon link if anyone's interested. The one reviewer gave it 5 stars, but take that with a grain of salt though - I have read the book, in fact - it's entertaining in a cockeyed way:

http://www.amazon.com/Manna-Lee-Cor...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331926013&sr=1-1
 
Linkwerk, you should start another thread if you're going to write a full TL.

Also, Rand & L. Ron Hubbard working together? Dear God, man.
 

Stolengood

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perverted and twisted into a despotic hellhole...
Erm... isn't Objectivism already "perverted and twisted"?

Also, forgive my extreme ignorance on this subject, but what the hell is Katanga? The name's making me think of the villain from that James Bond film Live and Let Die, but I know that's not it... :confused:
 
Erm... isn't Objectivism already "perverted and twisted"?

Also, forgive my extreme ignorance on this subject, but what the hell is Katanga? The name's making me think of the villain from that James Bond film Live and Let Die, but I know that's not it... :confused:

It's a region in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo that wanted to become independent in the 1960s, when the DRC was becoming independent itself.
 
Why would Katanga be more notorious than most, though? Would "Gulchers" make it the modern equivalent of Leopold's Congo, or something?

I'm guessing that's the direction Linkwerk is having it move towards. Apparently, the Katangan (?) government was thought by everyone internationally to be a puppet state for Belgian mining interests, although I don't know if the Katangans actually were supposed to be puppets or not.
 
Why would Katanga be more notorious than most, though? Would "Gulchers" make it the modern equivalent of Leopold's Congo, or something?

Because Katanga was attempting to break away propped up by Belgian corporate mining interests and also deployed the first widespread use of European mercenaries in it's army.

EDIT: A lot of the Katangan leadership was trying to flee the sinking ship that the Congo was rapidly becoming, but the whole area was the most developed part of the congo, and all it's infrastructure was geared to do one thing: let mining companies take raw materials and sell them someplace far away. Add in the fact that Belgium, although not recognizing Katanga, kept thousands of troops there to train the local army, and the breakaway region became the ultimate showcase for neocolonialism.

I don't think Tshombe went into it thinking "oh yeah awesome I'll be a puppet for mining interests" but whoops! guess what happened?
 
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