Libertarian idiots explain why they think Marxists should actually support Ayn Rand
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2023 3:27 am
I wish Mike Huben's newer version of his Critiques of Libertarianism website was still operating, here is the linkrot-filled original, last updated in 2011.
Libertarianism is a cult for people who majored in business as college undergraduates, and a hobby for Republicans who like smoking dope on the weekends. FEE itself is a Grand Old Man of propaganda for the philosophy -- they hired Ludwig von Mises in the late 1940s after he moved to America. Their pamphlets (including the stuff von Mises wtote for FEE) were used at Robert LeFevre's 1950s-60s "Freedom School" in Colorado Springs, Colorado as textbooks. Marxism will not be ditched by the young as long as neoliberal capitalism keeps giving them such a raw deal, and Ayn Rand has nothing to say about living in the 2020s (her last novel was set in an alternate-reality early 1960s.)