| "So many people who claim, or seem to have taken inspiration from Rand would, in fact, be "bad guys" in Atlas Shrugged." Case in point: Rand hated Libertarians.[1] Some typical examples from the article: - She called Libertarianism "a mockery of philosophy and ideology" - She accused Libertarians of "slinging slogans and trying to ride on two bandwagons" Later, she accuses them of entertaining "amateur political notions" and "rushing into politics in order to get publicity". She says that Libertarians - are based on "half-baked ideas, and in part on borrowed ideas". - "spend their time denouncing me, while plagiarizing my ideas". - "are perhaps the worst political group today, because they can do the most harm to capitalism, by making it disreputable." - would "like to have an amoral political program" [1] - http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=113321 |
Both Ayn Rand and most modern libertarians have little objection to the government provision of public goods like blizzard cleanup. They simply object to the government provision of private goods, such as diabetes treatment.