Archive for 'objectivism'

Response To DarkReaver13’s “Anarcho-Capitalism: An Objectivist’s Critique”

April 22nd, 2008 – 8:21 pm
Filed as: objectivism

The video I am responding to is located here.
This is a response to an Objectivist giving what are pretty standard Randian criticisms of anarcho-capitalism. I’ll provide some quotations from the video and where I take issue with them.
“The political goal of both anarcho-capitalists and Objectivists is to ban the initiation of force in human relationships.”
While [...]

The Why of Alan Greenspan

April 2nd, 2008 – 1:56 pm
Filed as: objectivism

Roderick T. Long recently posted this article on LewRockwell.com that basically details Alan Greenspan’s transition from Objectivism to chairman of the Federal Reserve (a very anti-libertarian and anti-Objectivist organization if there ever was one).
I found it very interesting since many people in libertarian and Objectivist circles have wondered if Greenspan was working as an “inside [...]