Word: objectivist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many of her dire predictions have come true, too little of her advice has been followed, complained Ideologue Ayn Rand, 70. And that, said the author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, accounts for her decision to stop publishing the Ayn Rand Letter, her monthly four-page tract on objectivist philosophy and laissez-faire capitalism. "I intend to return, full time, to my primary work: writing books," she wrote to her 15,000 subscribers. "The state of today's culture is so low that I do not care to spend my time watching and discussing it. I am haunted...
...California, as elsewhere, many disaffected rightists turned to Ayn Rand; whose objectivist teachings elevated capitalism from economics to religion. Rand shares Buckley's fear, if not his paranoia, about communism; but she philosophizes that communism can be defeated only by capitalism-the rational, selfish, non-altruistic, objective relationship of free people in a free enterprise system. Buckley and his followers, she feels, are traitors to capitalism and are the antithesis of all the qualities a capitalist needs; i. e., Buckleyites are irrational, romantic, superstitious, altruistic, and too confused by their worship of "tradition" to be objective...