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Old 08-04-2008, 07:11 PM   #47 (permalink)
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Ayn Rand did not understand that liberty can only be guaranteed by the nation state and its people.
Have you actually read her relevant works? Of course she understood that. She said the state and the legal system should protect individual rights as its first priority.
She wasn't an anarchist!
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"Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good."
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