jeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoHow young Argentines might put a far-right libertarian into powerwww.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1163arrow-down113
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minus-squareJesterXIII@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down3·1 year 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-squaremeeeeetch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·1 year 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-squarePsychedSy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·1 year 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.