Agorist Elements of Atlas Shrugged

Some similarities between the libertarian philosophy of agorism and the book Atlas Shrugged.

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[TeaParty1776]

Define agorism with some examples before discussing. I never heard of it.

[XOmniverse]

@TeaParty1776 I suggest Wikipedia for a detailed description of agorism.

[hypnolinks]

Why so many intelligent people continue to refer to Rand boggles my mind.

[XOmniverse]

That should be a strong indicator that your dismissal of her ideas may be unwarranted.

[hypnolinks]

My problem with Rand is not so much content but form. If she said A is A then that would be that.The problem is she says "A is A because C is D and if you disagree your a Kantian!!" for confirmation see the account of cropperb.

[XOmniverse]

I agree that she can be a bit callous and aggressive. Surely you can get past that though.

[Egoist1957]

I'm not an Anarchist (I'm a Minarchist and an Objectivist), but I do agree with some elements of Agorism - especially the idea of counter-economics. It's the economic version of civil disobedience-any capitalist can agree with that. I suppose that if Agorism is revolutionary market anarchism, what I believe is revolutionary capitalist minarchism.

[ericfontainejazz]

Ayn Rand was a very deranged and confused closet agorist. [End posthumous psychoanalysis]

[vaguelyhumanoid]

@fede2

Agorism adds a class theory and the idea of counter-economics. Plus, unlike ancap, agorism opposes the electoral process and consistently seeks alliances with the revolutionary left.

[fede2]

agorism is absurdly redundant. it's existed years before the term was coined. individualist anarchism, market anarchism, anarcho-capitalism, etc.

[teaparty111]

Ayn Rand (libertarian philosopher)was just as quixotic as libertarian socialists --it all sounds great in theory but it's really just a bunch of half witted intellectual sounding half-bakes that just want to throw around bullshit to show how smart they think you should think they are. Tell me--what kind of revolution (imagined revolution) is needed to take the FED from Rockerfeller and his ilk --then to take away the other MNC's--get real brother--you could not take over a shoe store for 24 hrs.

[yankeegurl62]

She was a capitalist. She felt that those who earned the money should use and keep the money. As opposed to Jerry Mander---who is as liberal as one can get

[mikecarpenter88]

That name that you cannot possibly pronounce goes like this (read it as is): ron-yar don-ish-old. I only know this because I got the audiobook.