re: #67 HappyWarrior

I read the Fountainhead in 11th grade philosophy class and then saw Ayn interviewed by Phil Donohue. It was sickening. She was even attacking voluntary charity. I feel kind of bad for Ayn Rand since she was someone who experienced the USSR but she created a terrible inversion of Socialism that causes just as much damage. And I will say this about Marx, I don’t think he ever intended for his philosophy to be what Mao and Stalin turned it into.

It seems to be something to do with Ayn Rand and not the government of the Soviet Union.

My sister-in-law (my wife’s brother’s wife) was born in the Soviet Union as well, worked in the Soviet government, and didn’t turn into a wingnut libertarian when she came here. (She tends not to involve herself in politics at all here, but with Trump running, she went out to vote for Clinton.)