our OT was about "capitalism as an ideal". Rand might have little to do with the operations of real capitalism, but functions as an important point of ideology, with "big believers" including Alan Greenspan. Its driven the propaganda mills for years.
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This is like claiming Ayn Rand is to capitalism as Jesus or Martin Luther are to Christianity or Marx, Lenin, or Mao to communism. It simply isn’t true. There is an impedance mismatch between the scale, scope and contents of the thing being pointed to by the term versus Randism
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Yes, this is our disagreement. Capitalism would continue to exist if all ideologues trying to speak for or against it disappeared in a way that’s not true of any true ideology.
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I don’t think I’m buying into that, while that industry does exist as you say. This is my Occam’s razor fit to the history of commerce as I understand it from reading history. But I don’t think it’s “necessary” in an argument-by-nature sense, or teleologically inevitable.
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