Aside from the indecipherably bad grammar of your post, as a red-blooded Republican, I can tell you that most of us consider Ayn Rand to be a joke at best; further more, most of us grow out of our 'objectivist' stage after leaving high school. Reagan is the ideal of our party because he is conservative, restrained, concerned about big government (but not defense spending), and ultimately a good, sane politian to look up to. From what I remember of Rand's correspondances, she was a cold bitch even to her fans - hardly a good role model.
For further reasons on why most serious Republicans don't like Ayn Rand, see Bioshock.
I agree that this not going to happen. A more interesting possibility is having Rand be much warmer towards the Libertarian Party instead of the following exchange:
Q: Libertarians advocate the politics you advocate. So why are you opposed to the Libertarian Party? [FHF: “Egalitarianism and Inflation,” 1974]
AR:They are not defenders of capitalism. They’re a group of publicity seekers who rush into politics prematurely, because they allegedly want to educate people through a political campaign, which can’t be done. Further, their leadership consists of men of every of persuasion, from religious conservatives to anarchists. Moreover, most of them are my enemies: they spend their time denouncing me, while plagiarizing my ideas. Now, I think it’s a bad beginning for an allegedly pro-capitalist party to start by stealing ideas.
She also called them the hippies of the Right. Frankly I'm confused why she loathed them so much, I've never read too much into Objectivism but is it really that removed from Libertarianism?
She also called them the hippies of the Right. Frankly I'm confused why she loathed them so much, I've never read too much into Objectivism but is it really that removed from Libertarianism?
. At the end of Atlas Shrugged (*smugly* which I read the entirety of... man that book was long),
boynamedsue said:Man that book was bad.
You read it? Why'd you read a book you didn't like? The writing was terrible, I'll agree with you on that. A lot of repetitive parts. Way too long-winded... Ayn Rand needed a really aggressive editor. But, for me, I thought elements were very heroic-romantic. I like the idea of supermen, makers and shakers among us. I like the dystopic feeling of that world, the villains and protagonists so clearly cut. It was a world of ignorant parasites that Ayn Rand created, as if only a few noble souls held together all of society, outcasts that were both hated by the rest but truly better than them. Do I believe this fantastic scenario? Of course. But just as the Marxist worldview is such an interesting philosophical fantasy, the Randian worldview is the same. The perceptions of reality some people build up in their minds are astounding. That's why it was worth reading.
And he also didn't account for certain developments like the transfer of almost everyone into a salaried class of company workers, who are not revolutionary because they don't feel exploited but at the same time own no capital of their own. In his day such a thing would have been crazy talk, he can be forgiven for not forseeing it.Glad you agree about the writing!
It is a total fantasy as you say, her views have nothing to do with the real world. I'd say that Marx, on the other hand, actually wrote am excellent analysis of 19th century capitalism, and that his views on the long term unviability of capitalism due to the impossibility of the perpetual concentration of wealth in a few hands is actually very relevant to the current economic problems.
What he didn't work out was that the state would act to preserve capitalism by creating more viable mixed economic models which would prevent revolution.
Stay on topic...stay on topic...And he also didn't account for certain developments like the transfer of almost everyone into a salaried class of company workers, who are not revolutionary because they don't feel exploited but at the same time own no capital of their own. In his day such a thing would have been crazy talk, he can be forgiven for not forseeing it.
Also, he was too damn idealistic. Humans Are Bastards, after all.