100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library

Re:100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library by mattmaroon on Friday May 16, 2008 @03:43AM (#191575)

Go ahead and Google "Ayn Rand libertarian". You'll see quotes immediately like "Russian-born Ayn Rand (1905-1982) brought more people into the libertarian movement than anybody else."

Also from her Wikipedia bio "Rand is considered one of the three founding mothers (along with Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Paterson) of modern American libertarianism"

Rand was too intelligent to be an anarchist.

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Re:100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library by nazgulnarsil on Friday May 16, 2008 @04:26AM (#191601)

I think I get what you're saying. Rand was a minarchist in most senses. The waters of libertarianism are very muddied.Just browsing wikipedia you get liberalism, libertarianism, calssical conservativism, capiatl L Libertarianism, minarchism,and calissical liberalism. and the terms mean different things internationally.

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Re:100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library by mattmaroon on Friday May 16, 2008 @02:28PM (#192075)

I love how I somehow get downmodded for pointing out a relatively simple fact.

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Re:100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library by nazgulnarsil on Friday May 16, 2008 @04:32AM (#191603)

also this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_and_Objectivism

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