Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
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This collection of 26 essays constitutes a challenging look at modern society.
The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world’s collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. In this series of essays, she presents her stand on the persecution of huge business, the causes of war, the defaulting of conservatism, and the evils of altruism. Here is a challenging new look at modern society by one of the most provocative intellectuals on the American scene. This edition includes two articles by Ayn Rand which did not appear in the hardcover edition: The Wreckage of the Consensus, which presents the Objectivists views on Vietnam and the draft; and Requiem for Man, an answer to the Papal encyclical Progresso Populorum. This collection of 26 essays includes twenty by Ayn Rand as well as three essays by Alan Greenspan, two by Nathaniel Branden, and one by Robert Hessen.
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Ayn Rands vision is best described in “American Psycho”
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Rand claims the only reason to have a government is to protect “individual rights,” but nowhere in her writings does she show these rights exist in any form additional than her own thoughts and rants.
In Objectivist epistemology, things exist in reality (the physical world) or in the mind: as abstractions, emotions, precepts, etc. So then, these rights must be thoughts or they must be matter.
These rights aren’t matter, they are not made of tissue, of cells or DNA. Question any doctor or biologist where the “rights” are located in humans. Question them if they know of any “rights gland” that exists. They will laugh in your face.
We can easily see that these rights are not part of our physical scenery, they are not made of cells or atoms, so then, they must be thoughts.
If they are thoughts, and if man is born with a “blank slate” as Rand says, then how could a newborn have rights, if he has no “rights concept” or no thoughts about “rights” at birth?
That’s simple: The newborn’s rights come from Rand’s thoughts, and these rights are subjective. Rand thinks about the newborn’s “rights,” and then the baby has them. Notice that this is not only subjective, but also Marxist in scenery: In Rand’s world the baby’s scenery is made by the thoughts of another human. Rand believes the baby has “rights,” and then “poof,” the rights are made.
How much do these rights weight? Where are they located? What color are they? Rand has absolutely no evidence that these rights exist, they are fantasy.
Imagine a newborn baby in a world where all additional humans have corroded in some manufacturing accident. Suppose a super genius space alien from another plantet gives the baby a medical exam with a super machine and super tecnology, etc. Will he find rights in there? Of course not. Why? because they are not there.
The fact is these “rights” make no sense when thinking about the solitary baby, because Rand’s view of rights demands another person (an objectivist) “thinking” about them for the warm emotioal feeling to renovate, for the rights to be made.
Based on these facts, Rand’s opinion for capitalism are absurd. Get you thoughts for freedom from Ludwig von Mises or Thomas Jefferson. Rand’s thought of rights is subjective and Marxist in scenery. Sorry boys, but you need to clean out your pants and then reread this a few times.
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In its time, Rand’s vision was enthralling. We are now living in a reality where huge business pretty much influences everything in our lives, and the society that it has produced isn’t exactly what Rand envisioned. The thought of an unrestrained capitalism sounds wonderful as a philosophy. But in truth, it’s just as treacherous as total government control: Exxon Mobil, Walmart, etc. are not businesses, but institutions with power over our every day lives. I don’t reflect that this is the world that Rand proposed, but it’s the outcome of her philosophy. Her efforts, while noble, have proven to be a failure.
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Capitalism has a number of failings but perhaps the most basic one
is its theory of values. Capitalism acts as if there is a common
currency with which we can measure all that is valuable (money).
This value monism is incorrect. See “The non-being of a utility
function and the structure of non-representable inclination relations”
(Beardon, et al, J. of Math. Econ., vol. 37, pg 17-38, 2002) and refs.
therein. Capitalists simply get the math incorrect. Money isn’t everything.
Value pluralism is the right axiology. There are things of value
that can not be bought and sold (thank god! like like and votes).
This failure of values within capitalism is why it is ultimately evil.
Rand is an apologist for evil, a tragic figure.
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Once you enslave your mind to a blind, fantasy-based, utopian distortion of capitalist society, which has nothing to do with the actual functioning of that system on any level, at anytime whatsoever (and the top beneficiaries wouldn’t have it any additional way – no matter what this “economic-libertarian” drivel espouses), this is what comes out of your pencil. Read this book, turn off the real world, and turn on to a reactionary and libertarian-utopian festival of greed, plunder, pillage and plutocracy WORSHIP touted as “common sense.” Don’t let any “libertarian” tell you that capitalists are against “huge government.” Capitalism requires state power and public plunder like plants require soil, and an un-revised, right account of actual history will back that up completely.
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