Tibor Machan was one of the founding partners in Reason Enterprises, which began publishing Reason magazine in 1971, three years after its creation. He became editor in the spring of 1971 and worke...
Tibor Machan was one of the founding partners in Reason Enterprises, which began publishing Reason magazine in 1971, three years after its creation. He became editor in the spring of 1971 and worked with the magazine through the '70s and '80s as an associate editor and senior editor. In 1978 he co-founded the Reason Foundation with Manny Klausner and Bob Poole. Today Machan holds the R. C. Hoiles Chair of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California.
"I think that for Ayn Rand to have survived and made a life for herself, she almost needed that edgy personality, otherwise she would have been destroyed," says Machan, who was born in Hungary in 1939. At 14 years of age, his father smuggled Machan out of the country, fearing the Hungarian communist government. His background helps give Machan insight into how the intellectual mind of Ayn Rand functioned. "Her unpleasantness," he says, "ultimately can be fully justified given the treatment she was given when she came out the Soviet Union, told the truth about that country, and nobody paid attention." In 2000, Machan wrote Ayn Rand exploring all the major themes of Ayn Rand's philosophical thought.
Approximately six minutes. Interview by David Nott, camera by Alex Manning, and editing by Hawk Jensen.
This is part of the Reason.tv series Radicals For Capitalism: Celebrating the Ideas of Ayn Rand.
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What does this guy mean when people dismissed her? We had a whole fucking red scare in this country, and the government took it out on our own working class.
"These superifical people always have some cheap, sociological explanation for why she's so popular."
OK, let me give you one focusing on her ideas: she was so popular because she gave people unable to cope with life's complexities simple slogans they could repeat as a substitute for actually thinking.
God these "Reason" guys are just so wishy-washy. If you go listen to Ayn Rand talk for 6 minutes you will learn so much more than you will listening to this weirdo.
Rand was Russian, Rand was a woman, Rand was a novelist, Rand couldn't fit in fully with the left nor the right, she looked unusual, etc, etc, etc...
These superifical people always have some cheap, sociological explanation for why she's so popular.
It's always anything and everything besides the fundamentality of her ideas. The fact that she was the first to ever fully defend what the rest of us liked, but never knew why we did so.
Her biggest fault was keeping 50% of her former communist homelands ideas. In practice Communism is based on atheism and selfishness. She was the epitome of damaged goods. Her past made her blind to the truth that pure selfishness is an empty and hollow way to live. No one should be forced to give any one anything against their will. That is robbery or slavery. Still, as the wisest man to ever lived said, "There is more happiness in giving than in receiving." The key is voluntary giving.
Nov. 9,'09 - There is nothing wrong with Ayn Rand because she was a FEMALE. There is nothing wrong with Ayn Rand being an ATHEIST. There is nothing wrong with Ayn Rand having a crush on Actor Gary Cooper. What was wrong with Ayn Rand was she is a jew. * Only a jew would defend selfish behavior. "Riches go to spoil." Change the word to spoil to EXPLOIT. There is the evidence of selfishness.
Rand wasn't "treated well" in the late 1950's/early 1960's? Even with all the money she made back then from sales of her novels? I'd readily accept that kind of ill treatment as long as the checks keep coming in.
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OK, let me give you one focusing on her ideas: she was so popular because she gave people unable to cope with life's complexities simple slogans they could repeat as a substitute for actually thinking.
Yuki Togawa
These superifical people always have some cheap, sociological explanation for why she's so popular.
It's always anything and everything besides the fundamentality of her ideas. The fact that she was the first to ever fully defend what the rest of us liked, but never knew why we did so.
She was the epitome of damaged goods. Her past made her blind to the truth that pure selfishness is an empty and hollow way to live.
No one should be forced to give any one anything against their will. That is robbery or slavery. Still, as the wisest man to ever lived said, "There is more happiness in giving than in receiving." The key is voluntary giving.
There is nothing wrong with Ayn Rand because she was a FEMALE.
There is nothing wrong with Ayn Rand being an ATHEIST.
There is nothing wrong with Ayn Rand having a crush on Actor Gary Cooper.
What was wrong with Ayn Rand was she is a jew.
* Only a jew would defend selfish behavior.
"Riches go to spoil." Change the word to spoil to EXPLOIT. There is the evidence of selfishness.