labor....ahhh the good ole days...get real.
--- Garland Ragland <raglangr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Um... Libertarianism DID work in this country for
> the first 150 years or so. It's since we've moved
> away from the Constitution, which is very
> Libertarian in its nature, that we've run into
> trouble.
>
> Ayn Rand's idea, Randism, and Libertarianism as
> well, are based around the same ideas that
> Capitalism are based around and we are a Capitalist
> country. What's the other option? Communism! So
> if you don't want to live in a country like that
> what you're really saying, rather you realize it or
> not, is that you want to live in a country run by
> Communists. A country where everyone is looked at
> as a whole, in groups, and not individually. Where
> there's no property and therefore no rights. Where
> you hear things like "common good," but everyone is
> suffering.
>
> That's not the country I want to live in.
>
> Further, Ayn Rand's ideas were based around the
> concept of individualism. The Founders of our
> country also based it around the concept of
> individualism. All rights found in the Constitution
> are individual rights for a reason. The opposite to
> this thinking is collectivism, which is Communist
> thinking.
>
> So when you say that you say "every man for himself
> kind of thing" what you're actually referring to is
> individualism and when you say you "don't want to
> live in a country run by people like that" what
> you're doing is rejecting individualism, which is
> what this country was founded on. The other
> options, are again, collectivism and Communism,
> which go hand-in-hand, and surely you don't want
> that?
>
> isabelle <isabelle_ms@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've heard people on the Thom
> Hartmann show from the
> Ayn Rand Institute, and they seem like an every man
> for himself kind of thing. I don't want to live in
> a
> country that's run by people like that.
> Libertarianism would never work in this country.
>
> --- Garland Ragland <raglangr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > She actually rejected Libertarianism, even though
> > her views were very Libertarian.
> >
> > raschueller <raschueller@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > --- In
> Dems2008@yahoogroups.com,
> > nancy m gibson <nmgibson@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > It's suffice to say Ayn Rand believed in
> > classical
> > > liberal traditions with emphasis upon
> > individualism.
> > > She has been claimed by the Libertarian party.
> > > But IMHO she was not a true Libertarian.
> > > I admire the lady.-------------Nan
> > >
> > Good lord. Want someone to admire admire Maggie
> > Kuhn rather than a
> > right wing nutjob.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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