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Stephen Grossman's avatar

The basic and crucial political issue of our age is: capitalism versus socialism, or freedom versus statism. For decades, this issue has been silenced, suppressed, evaded, and hidden under the foggy, undefined rubber-terms of “conservatism” and “liberalism” which had lost their original meaning and could be stretched to mean all things to all men.

-Ayn Rand, 1964

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Anonymous Dude's avatar

I mean, yeah, during the cold war.

Now it seems to be white cishet married men against people who hate them. If you're some of those things but not all, you'll be pulled in both directions.

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Stephen Grossman's avatar

Thanks for sharing the contents of your unfocused mind. Have you considered sharing the contents of your focused mind?

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Anonymous Dude's avatar

I'm too mystified to be offended.

Maybe the unfocused is more fun. Do what thou wilt shalt be the whole of the law!

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Stephen Grossman's avatar

Weve been trying get high without having to pay.

-sung by classically educated, '60s rocker, Marianne Faithfull

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robc's avatar

Virginia Postrel suggests Dynamism vs Stasis.

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Stephen Grossman's avatar

She evades identifying the context. As libertarian, she is superficial in principle. Individual rights, for or against, is the basic rational alternative. Of course, if one is a libertarian subjectivist...

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