Rand and Lenin

Posted by j_IR1776wg 7 years, 7 months ago to Ask the Gulch
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In view of this Vladimir Lenin quote,

'...All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else...'

http://thepeoplescube.com/lenin/lenin...

Do you think Ayn Rand's glorification of the hero in Man was purely a protest against Lenin?

Or was his quote the trigger that forced her into philosophy to prove and demonstrate that his views were incompatible with Man's proper existence on earth?


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  • Posted by Lucky 7 years, 7 months ago
    Your question is too hard for me at this time of night but thanks for the Lenin quotes.

    'Destroy the family, you destroy the country. '
    I think this is meant as instruction not as criticism, no surprise it is exactly what the green/left are doing!

    "While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State."
    Lenin, supporter of libertarianism?
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