Re: An Open Letter To Open-Minded Progressives

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:32:12 -0500, "skysi" <feur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>I know some folks don't like Rand because she always sounded so radical
and 
>forceful. Definitelly, she was not soft-spoken and entertaining. Yet,
this 
>didn't hinder my understanding of her philosophy. For me, content is most

>im****tant, not presentation. As to buying it, there's no way right now to

>prove that her system can work

Then why in, in the name of sanity, would you even begin to accept it
or advocate it?

> -- the world is too deeply rooted in its 
>destructive ways,

More quasi-religious cant.

> so things like her system sound Utopian and Idealistic. 

Because they are. You're not helping her cause by bringing it up.

>Yet, I do buy its intent and straightforwardness.

Which is irrelevant to its validity.

>As to Marx, Marx' and Rand's philosophies are in direct opposition, as 
>opposite as collectivism and individualism can be. 

Missing the point entirely. Both Rand and Marx were utopian
ideologues, Rand largely in reactionary opposition to Marx.