# This is parody, right? (Meme about extreme libertarianism) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 14, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-parody-right-meme-about-extreme-libertarianism/997554 "2024-02-14T16:35:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 268
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**Blasts from the past** We debated Ayn Rand’s importance in the History of Philosophy earlier this century. 2007: > [@What's The Straight Dope on Objectivism?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-objectivism/389983/64): > > Critics of fiction note that Ayn Rand beats the reader over the head with the most contrived cardboard characters, but grant that her work may have some philosophical value. Philosophers note that she uses straw-man arguments, but demure in judging Rand’s literary qualities. Neither will inveigh upon her economics. > > Economists note that any argument for libertarianism better have at least a passing notion of market failure. But maybe Rand’s work has some philosophical or literary merit. And back in 2002, a poster asked [What contribution, if any, did Ayn Rand make to philosophy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-contribution-if-any-did-ayn-rand-make-to-philosophy/120084)? The poster AynRandLover and the poster Libertarian seemed to think it was substantial. (The first would later change his handle to erislover; the second changed his username to Liberal. I was going by the name flowbark at the time, a name picked at random.) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-parody-right-meme-about-extreme-libertarianism/997554)._