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Originally Posted by The Ozzman
The Fountainhead is decent. Atlas Shrugged is way better though
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I've wanted to read Atlas Shrugged for years. Ayn Rand is a very intereseting person.
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Originally Posted by Seraphim Belial
I hate Ayn Rand with a passion.
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I believe that a lot of people on this forum do...
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Originally Posted by cookiecutter
ditto
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...and I
knew you would cookie.
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Originally Posted by cookiecutter
EDIT: Corporations pay schools to teach her to business students. That's fucked up.
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Well, she is one of the biggest defenders of capitalism in the nation. They teach Adam Smith, so why not Ayn Rand?
Personally, I admire Ayn Rand. She definitely has some flaws in her reasoning (I actually wrote a paper for a critical thinking class where I focused on one of her speeches and found some fallacies in her argument), and she isn't very open-minded towards communism. But you have to look at her past, and how much Soviet Russia fucked her family's life up. She has a legitimate reason to hate communism and support capitalism. Her family was forced to flee their home because of "communism."