Myths of Ayn Rand

2012-08-15 · first published in marxsite · 95 words

This was not a Socialist Resistance publication. marxsite was Phil Hearse’s own long-form site, run alongside the paper he helped edit. It is kept here with his agreement, recovered from the Internet Archive after the domain lapsed and was taken over by someone else; nothing here links to the address it now points at.

Only a fragment of this survives. It may have been a short link-and-comment post, which marxsite ran many of, or the opening of a longer piece cut off by the capture — from what remains there is no way to tell which.

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Newly adopted Republican V-P candidate Paul Ryan is a big fan of Ayn Rand, who thought the state had no function outside its military role. Here's an article I wrote a few years back about Ayn Rand and her wacky theories. Click here. See below video of Ayn Rand explaining in the early 1960s how welfare states are bringing the world to disaster (not for those of a nervous disposition). US stamp with image of Rand (left). Right she's talking to King Vidor and Gary Grant about the film of her book The Fountainhead (1949).

The capture this was recovered from