Re:Economics in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged [pdf]
by vezzy-fnord on Saturday February 20, 2016 @09:48AM
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Not necessarily a contradiction for capitalist-entrepreneurs to advocate communes. After all, the mutualists and 19th-century individualist anarchists were pro-market, though coming at it from a labor theory of value.
Then again, it depends on how you've loaded your definition of capitalism.
For those that haven't read it, it involves rugged, noble and pure capitalist innovators getting so upset at government overreach and not being able to enforce patents on their genius they go and form a commune. (which isn't really a commune, because when a billionaire industry titan offers you a lift, you pay him a taxi fare to prevent him from feeling guilty about his altruism)
Which is a bit of a shame really, because a satire about entrepreneurs vs corrupt governments could have been really powerful in the grasp of someone that actually understood enterprise.