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'Is this what you consider evil?' Rand worth another read as left wingers vilify capitalism

Posted by sdesapio 6 years, 2 months ago to Politics
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With a new batch of politicians in D.C. espousing socialism, victimization and House freshman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez running Amazon’s jobs out of New York, etc., it might be a good time to re-read Ayn Rand’s work.


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  • Posted by exceller 6 years, 2 months ago
    "And when men live by trade — with reason, not force, as their final arbiter — it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability, and the degree of a man’s productiveness is the degree of his reward. Is this what you consider evil?"

    Yes, that speech of Francisco rivals that of John Galt's. although the latter is the documented philosophical underlying of AS.

    Seeing his sentences again, think about "the man of best judgement" phrase. What is considered "best judgement" in our times? President Trump undoubtedly has the best judgement on many issue the country is facing, but he is relentlessly vilified by the left. To them, he has the worst judgement b/c he is not for open borders, illegal immigrants, paying for NATO, trade imbalances, etc.

    Doubtful that anyone on the left read AS. I have a friend who has been staunchly supporting Dems for decades. He simply won't touch the book with a ten foot pole.

    People in this country have no idea what socialism is, let alone communism.

    By Lenin "The goal of socialism is communism".

    You won't understand it until you live under it.

    When Obama ran I warned people that he was a socialist/communist and will be a disaster for the country. They did not believe me.
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