Reason.tv's Radicals for Capitalism: Celebrating the Enduring Legacy of Ayn Rand

Coming November 2, Reason.tv will debut "Radicals for Capitalism: Celebrating the Enduring Power of Ayn Rand's Ideas," a new video series featuring segments on the novelist's continuing presence in American culture and exlcusive interviews with Nathaniel Branden, Barbara Branden, Reason Foundation founder Robert W. Poole, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), and many others.

For more details and an archive of recent Reason-related stories on Rand, including reviews by Brian Doherty and Nick Gillespie of two new biographies of Rand, go to http://reason.org/rand

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[InbheDax2002]

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism... Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. It is a barnyard or stock-farm version of collectivism, appropriate to a mentality that differentiates between various breeds of anmials, but not between animals and men. ... There is only one antidote to racism: the philosophy of individualism and its politico-economic corollary, laissez-faire capitalism. - Ayn Rand

[ilieklolcatz]

Ayn Rand's racist ideas? Like what?

[kn9ioutom]

@MirageScience WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR CHENEY IRAQ OIL WAR ?

[kn9ioutom]

TAX CUTS FOR RICH ! CUTS FOR POOR ! IT'S IN GOP BIBLE

[AkaiTsukiShimitsu]

@MirageScience And when the numbers reach zero.... they lead to stagnation.The monopoly of force is useful for stopping stagnation by protecting life & freedom. But not only that, the necessity of using force is an exception, not the rule(read it as emergencies). As many services which rely on emergencies to work, deployment must be inmediate, always available, but not always used. So, if a system is required to work by emergencies, monopolies become the only required, for they're always there.

[MirageScience]

@AkaiTsukiShimitsu yeah its call costs, costs stop firms from fighting. ever wonder why walmart doesn't try predatory pricing? it doesn't work, just like starting a war wouldn't work.

[AkaiTsukiShimitsu]

@MirageScience A monopoly is not by itself evil, as long as it accomplishes its goal. But competing firms of defense would have direct conflicts continually if there was no monopoly. To place an example, if A murdered B's wife, A's firm of defense could start force movements against B, and B's firm protect him. That would probably lead a war, for no one avoids both firms for killing each other. Neither it will avoid crimes for power or money, so the best example of those firms are mafias =/

[MirageScience]

@AkaiTsukiShimitsu At least you referred to it as a monopoly on force which it very much is. Can you tell me why a monopoly on force would be better than competing firms of defense? I don't see why a monopoly would ever be better.

[AkaiTsukiShimitsu]

@MirageScience Not as simple, Ayn Rand posed in The virtue of selfishness that the state is useful, but only as what it trully is: the monopoly of force. It's only use is protect the citizens, but it has long been used for other things.

[Dumpster510]

@megagagnon1 the fed is A problem. THE problem is statism.

[Dumpster510]

in short, the reason why so many (statists) hate (on) ayn rand is because their morality (altruism) is a code of death and suffering. her morality (objectivism, or individualism if you like) is a code of life and happiness. when debated on their terms (with their morality underscoring the debate), the statist will always win. in fact the most irrational will always win. when debated on her terms, they will NEVER win. and hence, they've tried to write her out of history and relevance.

[megagagnon1]

@TheAtheistAllegiance The problem is central banking. End the Fed.