# 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:** 270
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Not that it matters, but Libertarian seemed aware of Rand’s hostility. > [@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/120084/41): > > She called libertarians “hippies of the right” and “anarchists”. See “Brief Summary,” The Objectivist, September 1971 and “What Can One Do?” _Philosophy: Who Needs It_, both by Ayn Rand. Also, see “Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty,” by Peter Schwartz in the Ayn Rand collection, _The Voice of Reason_. > > Her principle living disciple, Harry Binswanger, with whom I’ve corresponded on more than one occasion, said: > > > [@](#): > > > > The “libertarians”…plagiarize Ayn Rand’s principle that no man may initiate the use of physical force, and treat it as a mystically revealed, out-of-context absolute… In the philosophical battle for a free society, the one crucial connection to be upheld is that between capitalism and reason. The religious conservatives are seeking to tie capitalism to mysticism; the “libertarians” are tying capitalism to the whim-worshipping subjectivism and chaos of Binswanger’s sectarian anger reminds me of the LaRouchites I occasionally encountered. Sam Stone (who has denied being a Libertarian and expressed skepticism of the Lib. Party upthread) also caught the distinction: > [@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/120084/17): > > Oh, and she does not believe that ‘personal desires’ are the valid basis for decision-making. This idea is another misunderstanding of her work. She was opposed to anarchism, and she was opposed to hedonism. She even hated Libertarians. But you’d know that, since you’ve actually read what she has to say, right? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-parody-right-meme-about-extreme-libertarianism/997554)._