But look how politically ignorant it was!Įvery "philosopher" after Kant has been irredeemably stained by his nonsensical philosophy (Rand excluded obviously). As an alternative many favored "an American Mussolini" and they formed The Liberty League in opposition to him and the New Deal philosophy. And he was right in that judgment.Ībout a month ago I read something about how many smart and good people feared and hated Roosevelt, and thought he was driving America right over the cliff and into tyranny. Think of how much American President Franklin Roosevelt (1933-45)advocated political "experimentation"! This is because no-one around him seemed to know very much politically. So they thought that gov't control of industry and the economy, thru a virtuous strongman dictator, was worth a shot. They knew that gov't ownership of industry and the economy, mixed with general tyranny, wasn't the answer. Smart and good people in the 1930s pretty much rejected socialism and communism. Rand's political revolution of the 1960s hadn't taken place yet. I think it was essentially just one factor: simple ignorance.
"I don't have a great explanation for the rise of Nazism. Rand never completely transcended Nietzche. Objectivism is not Nietzschean in any way or form. The basic reason is Rand mixed up her personal philosophy with the Objectivist philosophy. Or, Objectivism needed libertarianism and libertarianism needed Objectivism and both suffered consequently. Ironically, Objectivism, because of Rand's self-centered attitude, never went anywhere politically. The contemporary libertarian intellectual peak was represented by John Hosper's 1972 book "Libertarianism." That was also near libertarianism's political peak. What the libertarians didn't seem to get was that without a more general philosophy individual rights advocacy would die on their vines for it was essentially anti-intellectual. Rand advocated a moral revolution with the political its natural derivative-individual rights-but that derivative was the primary libertarian orientation and set up the conflict between libertarianism and Objectivism that she instigated and insisted upon thus driving the libertarians out if they weren't already gone from her philosophy.
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