I read almost all of Rand, but went another way...BOOMERBUSTER. She was, just from reading her books, a talented orator. Not, however, a very good philosopher.
I also read almost all of Tarzan......they are related; although Tarzan's oratorical skills are highly limited, almost to the level of a chimp.
I also read almost all of Tarzan......they are related; although Tarzan's oratorical skills are highly limited, almost to the level of a chimp.
The LIEO which further enabled large MNCs, long predates the New Deal, and goes back to Wilson at least.
Large international trading and banking companies had, of course, dominated international trade and finance for centuries, before that.......
Liberal initiatives from Britain, CFR, etc. long predate FDR.
Glaucon references 1971, the year of the Nixon Shock.
Monopoly Capital, Wikipedia, great old tract, coming partially true, for Glaucon X.
Monopoly Capital, Wikipedia, great old tract, coming partially true, for Glaucon X.
I’m reading, Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal, by Kim Phillips-Fein. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003U6YKS4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
It documents the efforts of a US business class that never accepted the ideals of the New Deal and immediately plotted to tear them down. This effort began as early as 1934 under the DuPonts and extended throughout the era, and included the inspiration provided by the Lewis Powell(1909) memo in 1971. Following the memo's directives, conservative foundations greatly increased, pouring money into think-tanks. All this was done by wealthy businessmen of pre-boomer generations long before most boomers were old enough to vote. The impact of these efforts on our daily economic lives has been a hundred times more profound than those of either SDS or Mario Savio.
Ayn Rand(1905), Goldwater(1907), and Reagan(1911) are all part of this long tradition of business led advocacy of anti-government ideas. The Bush quote you gave is just a parroting of Herbert Hoover’s 1928 rugged individualism speech. Not a single idea of Bush or Norquist was not already being promoted by other free-market ideologues of previous generations. It is complete nonsense to attribute these ideas solely to the boomer generation. By attributing these ideas to a single generation you are doing enormous harm. Firstly, because it’s not true, and secondly, and far more importantly, you’re giving people the false hope that these ideas will die with the boomers. This leads to passivity, which is exactly what the promoters of these evil ideas want.
The list of powerful people who were influenced by Ayn Rand far outweighs any list of people influenced by Mario Savio or SDS. Oh sure, I’ll admit that a few college kids at elite institutions are a bit noisier than before because of their legacy, but what is that compared to an economy where the real lives of working people have been crushed by an all-powerful business elite. In summary, you focus on ants and ignore elephants.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_influenced_by_Ayn_Rand).
It documents the efforts of a US business class that never accepted the ideals of the New Deal and immediately plotted to tear them down. This effort began as early as 1934 under the DuPonts and extended throughout the era, and included the inspiration provided by the Lewis Powell(1909) memo in 1971. Following the memo's directives, conservative foundations greatly increased, pouring money into think-tanks. All this was done by wealthy businessmen of pre-boomer generations long before most boomers were old enough to vote. The impact of these efforts on our daily economic lives has been a hundred times more profound than those of either SDS or Mario Savio.
Ayn Rand(1905), Goldwater(1907), and Reagan(1911) are all part of this long tradition of business led advocacy of anti-government ideas. The Bush quote you gave is just a parroting of Herbert Hoover’s 1928 rugged individualism speech. Not a single idea of Bush or Norquist was not already being promoted by other free-market ideologues of previous generations. It is complete nonsense to attribute these ideas solely to the boomer generation. By attributing these ideas to a single generation you are doing enormous harm. Firstly, because it’s not true, and secondly, and far more importantly, you’re giving people the false hope that these ideas will die with the boomers. This leads to passivity, which is exactly what the promoters of these evil ideas want.
The list of powerful people who were influenced by Ayn Rand far outweighs any list of people influenced by Mario Savio or SDS. Oh sure, I’ll admit that a few college kids at elite institutions are a bit noisier than before because of their legacy, but what is that compared to an economy where the real lives of working people have been crushed by an all-powerful business elite. In summary, you focus on ants and ignore elephants.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_influenced_by_Ayn_Rand).
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