Ayn Rand's Ideas: An Introduction - Ayn Rand Center

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An excerpt from a lecture by Dr. Onkar Ghate, Senior Fellow at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights (a part of the Ayn Rand Institute), and Dean at the Objectivist Academic Center, introducing Ayn Rand's revolutionary ideas.

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Recorded in Irvine, California, on June 2, 2003. See more videos at http://www.aynrand.org/reg_ls_index

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[olipop84]

Right on! The truth, as can be demonstrated historically is that man's need to be productive and rational will never and must never cease unless man desires to cease existing. Only a parasitical mind would regard the invention of a complex machine as a "waste" because it required 40 years of effort. Incidentally it would be the same man who would demand that such machine "belong" any non thinker simply because it is needed or desired without recognizing or rewarding its creator.

[shovelcharge]

Maybe you should actually read Ayn Rand.

[TheButlerism]

@platinum014 Is that an answer? I cant see how suppression is limited purely to government forces. Sure it is coercive instrument but what prevents an individual from usurping that power? Especially when economic wealth is a factor.

I think it's quite naive to think that government is totally the problem. Yes government is problematic but isn't the removal of private property a more steadfast way of securing individual rights?

[platinum014]

@TheButlerism suppression? is that even possible in a Laissez-faire system? If you look at history all suppression has occurred due to government intervene.

[TheButlerism]

@platinum014 Is there an explanation in that? Socialism has nothing to do with it were talking about objectivism as a valid system/ ideology.

How does objectivism deal with the suppression of the individual rights of others which seems unfortunately a consequence of it?

[platinum014]

@TheButlerism only when socialism is brought into the game.

[TheButlerism]

What I don't seem to understand is the inherent contradiction within objectivism and its arguably less radical cousin, right libertarianism, and the suppression of individual liberty. As I have heard objectivists say that the goal is to gain the maximum amount of rights for a human being without impeding radically on the rights of others. Wouldn't objectivism though lead to the suppression of individual rights? When I imagine an objectivists world it is one where people are slaves to the few

[TheButlerism]

@platinum014 With just a touch slavery and oppression hahah