I think Fascist is the wrong term, but they are radical. Fascists is per definition right wingers
You couldn't be more wrong.
You could try to be...but you wouldn't be successful.
For your education:
In a letter written on March 19, 1944, Ayn Rand remarked:
“Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme—collectivism.” Rand would later expand on this insight in various articles, most notably in two of her lectures at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston: “The Fascist New Frontier” (Dec. 16, 1962, published as a booklet by the Nathaniel Branden Institute in 1963); and “The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus” (April 18, 1965, published as Chapter 20 in
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal [
CUI] by New American Library in 1967).
As Rand put it in “Conservativism: An Obituary” (
CUI, Chapter 19):
The world conflict of today is the conflict of the individual against the state, the same conflict that has been fought throughout mankind’s history. The names change, but the essence—and the results—remain the same, whether it is the individual against feudalism, or against absolute monarchy, or against communism or fascism or Nazism or socialism or the welfare state.
Modern Liberalism....the Democrat Party, specifically, stands for the very same doctrines and principles of the Communist Party,USA.
Don't make that mistake again.
You've been duped by that Randian dogma as distorted and used today as cover, Cynthia/Chica, and linked it with the Mises/Coulter propaganda you hold dear to prove you are a true red blooded American CONservative type. Your reference to Rand's
ESSAY, "Conservatism, an Obituary" of a single paragraph does not reflect the flavor of Rand's intent at all, and was selectively chosen by you simply to fit your faulty narrative.
Here is the clearer intent Rand was trying to convey which matches the title of the
ESSAY,"Conservatism, an Obituary" (delivered at Princeton, 1960):
"The first choice - and the only one that matters - is: freedom or dictatorship, capitalism or statism.
That is the choice which today's political leaders are determined to evade. The "liberals" are trying to put statism
over by stealth - statism of a semi-socialist kind - without letting the country realize what road they are taking
to what ultimate goal.
And while such policy is reprehensible, there is something more reprehensible still:
the policy the "conservatives," who are trying to defend "'Freedom'" by stealth!"
~~
Conservatism: An Obituary ~~ {Emphasis Added}
In 1956, Ms. Rand wrote a runaway best selling masterpiece titled Atlas Shrugged that caught the imagination of millions of Americans. As a young man, I read it in the early'60's and admit to being profoundly influenced by it. A renowned conservative of Rand's latter decades and lone time foe of Rand, William F. Buckley, wrote a review of Atlas Shrugged at the time in his National Review. Buckley excoriated Atlas Shrugged and Rand, as did other "conservatives" such as Whittaker Chambers who also VERY unfavorably critiqued Rand's book and its author in the National Review article titled "Big Sister Is Watching You".
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Objectivism takes its name from its commitment to objectivity. Tradition can never come first to such a world view: the facts and what works are the bottom line. Objectivism
rejects “God” as an incoherent concept and rejects any idea of the supernatural , putting it at odds with traditional religions on these issues. And Rand offered a this-worldly, self-centered morality of living by reason and trade, one that makes pride a cardinal virtue. Her ethics thus stands against
ideas of religious duty and self-sacrifice that many conservatives prize.
In
“Conservatism, An Obituary,” Rand charged that the underlying philosophical values of the conservatives vitiated their attempts to promote market capitalism.
If the “conservatives” do not stand for capitalism, they stand for and are nothing: they have no goal, no direction, no political principles, no social ideals, no intellectual values, no leadership to offer anyone.
Yet capitalism is what the “conservatives” dare not advocate or defend. They are paralyzed by the profound conflict between capitalism and the moral code which dominates our culture: the morality of altruism. (
Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal, p. 195 paperback)
There is much that is right in American tradition. America
does stand for liberty and individual freedom in its basic ideas. America
is the country of the self-made man. There is much that is right about conservatism, too: its ethic of personal responsibility, for instance, and its respect for the Constitution. But these values can only be defended on the basis of reason and the facts. We can accept no substitute.
Ayn Rand was right about that.
And that’s why she wasn’t really right-wing. ~~
Myths About Ayn Rand | Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and Individualism | The Atlas Society ~~
In other words, Cynthia/Chica, Every time you cite Ayn Rand, or the Mises Institute cites Ayn Rand, or Ann Coulter cites Ayn Rand as a paragon of Conservatism, all three of you don't know what you're talking about and are just rewriting history to fit your COLLECTIVE'S narrative and spreading your brand of propaganda.
Rand wasn't right wing because she preached capitalism and rejected altruism. Rand wasn't left wing because she preached capitalism and rejected altruism. Rand was an Objectivist, not a Bible thumping hypocritical "conservative". I SHIT on your propaganda and rewrite of history, Cynthia/Chica!
