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Libertarian Who Says We Should Rely Less on Government Is Strangely Reliant on Government
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She hated libertarians. Ancaps are against wars and IP, two things she was heavily into. Ayn Rand's views couldn't work without a government.
You either don't know anything about Ayn Rand's "philosophy", or don't know shit about libertarian ideologies. I have a feeling it's a little of both.
I know enough about both to have a good laugh about them.
I mean, you're not necessarily wrong. If you have your facts off you might be laughing at yourself, tho.
I'm not gonna get super no true scottsmanny, but ideologies do have definitions other than self-id. Rand was a loon that couldn't follow her own axioms. Libertarianism is a pretty big umbrella.
She hated libertarians because they weren't pure enough for her. Also, being against IP isn't something that emerges in libertarian thought until the 90s Internet. They were for stronger IP protection until then.
I mean she wasn't pure enough for them either. She tried to build some bullshit around uber mensch, but couldn't just stop being auth long enough. If you actually care about individual liberties you end up in a different place.
There are a lot of jokes about starting with Rand, but almost nobody ends up an objectivist.