A sensible Anarchist at the GOP Convention

[Otto]

Not to forget this:


"Though he now prefers discussing Hayek, Ryan seems to have been more
deeply affected by Rand, whom he credits for inspiring his political
career. It is likely the combination of the two—the theory of
everything and the glorification of inequality—that gives him his
cheery, and eerie, confidence. Hayek and Rand are comfortable
intellectual company not because they explain reality, but because,
like all effective ideologists, they remove the need for any actual
contact with it. They were reacting to real historical experience,
Hayek with National Socialism and Rand with Soviet communism. But
precisely because they were reacting, they flew to extreme
interpretations. Just as untethered capitalism did not bring
proletarian utopia, as the Marxists thought, intervention and
redistribution did not bring totalitarianism, as anti-Marxists such as
Hayek claimed."

2012/8/30 Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>:
> Very good...
> (...)
> http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/aug/28/grand-old-marxists/