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Originally Posted by ebacon
Here's more on Ayn Rand's philosophy from Professor Vladimir Shlapentokh. He is a Soviet sociologist that emigrated to the USA in 1979. In this article he describes how perfectly awful Ayn Rand's philosophy is for the USA. He attributes shortcomings in the philosophy to Ayn Rand's Russian roots. He and I had a pleasant discussion on the phone back when he was writing about Ayn Rand and I told him my theory about Ayn Rand actually being intent on destroying the US economy from within. He called me a conspiracy theorist. Par for the course. The curious thing is that the professor and I arrived at identical conclusions as to the problems with Ayn Rand's philosophy. The question then becomes are those errors there by mistake as the professor claims or on purpose as I claim.
The reason I believe they are there are purpose are because Ayn Rand's philosophy nudges traditional American self-managed capitalism towards a more feudal brand of capitalism that occurred in Russia under the czars. That was the brand of capitalism that Marx predicted would fail. I still firmly believe that Ayn Rand was a Soviet plant whose assignment was to perform social engineering the USA.
In any event here is the professor's article.
http://shlapentokh.wordpress.com/201...9s-philosophy/
Here is the professor's web site. He's a pretty fascinating guy to talk with.
https://www.msu.edu/~shlapent/index.html |
Thanks for the cite. I'm interested in this subject matter. Your Soviet plant hypothesis is interesting. BTW, since you appear to be into philosophy, have you read Wittgenstein's Tractatus? I had to deal with it in a linguistic seminar on formal languages.