Objectively Speaking By Ayn Rand
Entry posted by Neil Parille
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I'm reading this book (a collection of interviews) and it's fascinating.
In particular, I found Rand's discussion of libertarianism much more balanced than in the quotes you can find on the ARI's page.
They are usually called "libertarians," with Professor Ludwig von Mises and Henry Hazlitt as their best exponents. Such so-called defenders of capitalism are defenders of capitalism on a non-mystical, scientific basis. . . . In a general sense, though, are difference with the libertarians lies in the fact that they are concerned primarily with economics and politics. . . . But the liberartians hang in in mid-air, in effect, with no foundation for their positions. (16-17)
In addition, Rand is sympathetic to restricting voting to those who have property.
She is also more supportive of state's rights than in other places:
The proposal to limit all political voting districts to "one man, one one vote," as it is called is in effect an attempt to destroy all political structure . . . ruled by a central government. If your purpose is to defend invidividual rights, you need a series of semi-sovereign states and localities, each governed by its local population and united into a wider entity, which is the United States. (55)
-Neil Parille
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