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minus-squareJesterXIIIlinkfedilink15•9 months agoI can’t really see Ayn Rand as anything other than far right, and that’s about as OG libertarian as you get. Free market, unfettered capitalism.
minus-square@meeeeetch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish15•9 months agoShe’s only OG if you disregard the fifty some odd years of the word libertarian referring to anarchists like Emma Goldman. Back before Murray Rothbard hijacked the term.
minus-square@PsychedSy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish2•9 months agoNot really. It’s fairly libertarian for sure, but she was a war hawk and in favor of IP laws.
I can’t really see Ayn Rand as anything other than far right, and that’s about as OG libertarian as you get. Free market, unfettered capitalism.
She’s only OG if you disregard the fifty some odd years of the word libertarian referring to anarchists like Emma Goldman. Back before Murray Rothbard hijacked the term.
Not really. It’s fairly libertarian for sure, but she was a war hawk and in favor of IP laws.