Posted on 02/14/2019 11:29:00 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Ayn Rand was born in St. Petersburg on Feb 2, 1905 and received her education in the city.
Yaron Brook from the Ayn Rand Institute says he is happy with the reception the author is now receiving in her hometown...
“We’re in a crisis in the world right now and people everywhere are looking for better ideas.”
By the time her books were translated into Russian in the late 1990s, much of the nation had become disillusioned with the painful transition to capitalism. Rand’s holy grail — the free market — was seen as the primary cause of the decade’s inequality, hyperinflation and financial collapse.
Anastasia Grigorovskaya, a literature professor at the Tyumen State University, says Rand continues to be sidelined in her native country as a result.
“Russia does not remember Ayn Rand. We need to bring her back."
Andrei Shalnev says that the writer’s popularity, especially among the youth, has exploded in the years since the first Ayn Rand birthday conference was held in St. Petersburg in 2014. In fact, the 30-year-old organizer, who wears a trim beard and spectacles, is among the oldest figures in the conference hall.
At the first events, around 50 to 70 people would show up, Shalnev says, and it was mostly an inside affair. This year, he boasts, more than 600 people registered as attendees at the door.
“If there is any future for Russia, then it will only be possible thanks to the ideas of Ayn Rand."
Georgy, a 20-year-old sporting an iconic red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap, describes himself as a right-wing conservative.
"If there was a Russian Trump then I would vote for him, but he doesn't exist," he adds with a shrug.
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
Great post.
Perhaps she was. But she was also right about a good many things.
Not perfect, and wrong on several key issues, but that does not change the fact that she was right on a good many things.
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The three movies that were made recently on Atlas Shrugged went from IMO:
1.Good - decent acting & quality looking production,
2.Average - Different actors with just a “so-so” performance, production quality off,
3.Awful - Again different actors, poor performance & another slip in production quality.
The Fountainhead with Gary Cooper is only worth watching if you’re a dyed-in-the-wool Copper & Patricia Neal fan and will watch anything they are in. Very poorly represents Rand’s book.
Well, they had 70 years to dress up as the wrong characters.
This form of criticism is akin to arguing (as the Left often does) that the Constitution is invalid because some of the Founding Fathers owned slaves.
There are several Randian ideas I’d advise them to stay well away from.
Regards, Viking
Much of her philosophy is great; her private life, horrible. Enjoy her books, but stay away from the real person.
There’s an old saying; “You become what you hate if you hate it enough!”
It applies to Ayn Rand and her group! I think the called themselves jokingly - “The Collective”.
And that’s what they become with the Brandens, latter Leonard Pekoff being the ideological enforcers.
Agreed. The first part of AS wasn’t too bad, but the second and third parts were almost unwatchable.
I think Atlas Shrugged just isn’t the right type of material for a movie. It is more about ideas, and railroads, steel mills and such are more of a background to the ideas. Movies need visuals to tell the story and Atlas doesn’t have them.
IMHO, it is cinematographic enough. The reasons are political. Hollywood hates the message. They are the bad guys according to Rand’s philosophy.
“A person wearing MAGA cap in Russia today is the least appealing promoter of anything right now.”
I’ve heard that Russia actually has pretty traditional values now. And I know I heard from visitors that they thought Obama was a horrible. They are totally against the gay agenda.
What would you think of a person wearing ‘Make Russia Great Again’ on your street? It is the same thing and has nothing to do with traditional values.
Also all the ‘Russia, Russia’ stuff has impact internationally, especially in Russia itself.
Agreed, better than Atlas Shrugged.
Yep, Hollywood would not even try.
“she may have kicked everyone out except Galt”
HA! That’s good!
I’m certainly no Rand or AS cultist. Though I can think of worse things than being a zealot regarding objectivism.
Probably more out of spite than admiration for Howard Roark I’ve made a pretty big move. I’ve got a little but I have no heirs other than a leftist sibling who gets zip. So, the plan is, upon death, to spend leftover money to bulldoze my properties and return the land to a condition unusable without work.
It does buoy my heart, lol.
Rand ping.
Not a cultist myself but AS explains the ways to success and failure quite well. It is a must read for sure.
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