[vbmoneyspender]

Rand/Hitler? What possible basis is there for linking Ayn Rand to Hitler?

[B-Chan]

You know, I wondered about that one myself. I mean, I'm no fan of Ayn Rand myself, but Hitler? You've got me. It makes no sense.

I suspect that Mr. Vecchio's knowledge of right-wing political philosophy is superficial at best. When it comes to wacked-out Germans, Rand has more in common with Max Stirner than with Adolf Hitler.

[fishbabe]

because all liberals know if you link hitler with the right by the time every figures it was liberals who had more in common with him ,it will be too late to save us...after all the germans had the u.s to save them from themselves but we have no one...when the liberals shut us down and make us the new nazi germany there will be no one to save us...which is why liberals fight so hard to keep the truth from the american people....

[CyberAnt]

That's what I was thinking! Hitler was a Socialist - he hated the Communists - only because they were competition to him. Hitler WAS THE BIGGEST LIBERAL !!!!!

[Dan from Michigan]

I missed that. Rand is the opposite of a Hitler.

[lib-r-teri-ann]

you noticed that little casual allusion to "Rand/Hitler" huh? Clever little monkey this writer is, and proves once and for all that Liberalism = Fascism.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

One might suspect that the "Rand/Hitler" allusion is intended to cover a spectrum of positions. Perhaps.

The use of "ideology" invites commentary. Just about all political and social systems are ideological in one form or another. The "liberal" ideology of the secular humanist variety popular in some Western democracies has its own peculiar style and jargon for codifying the bureaucratic processes of statist expansion, cultural decadence, and wealth redistribution. Totalitarian ideologies of the modern type are certainly distinctive in their utopian and eschatological fanaticism, but so were Islam and the Mongol Empire. Political manipulation by complex power systems is at least as old as the pyramids and the Pharaohs. That ordered liberty of the constitutional type developed within the Christian sphere of Western civilization is of some philosophical interest. All societies have ontological presuppositions of one sort or another which define reality. Where modern ideologies have distorted reality is usually where the problems arise. In the age of mass media, it becomes of interest who controls the dominant discourses about the society's structure, ideology, and disputational processes.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

What possible basis is there for linking Ayn Rand to Hitler?

None ?