tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11235100.post116110113313113308..comments2023-11-03T08:26:40.116-07:00Comments on THE DAILY APOLOGY: I became a libertarian without reading ANY Rand...Stephan Kinsellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07986650653184633661noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11235100.post-84053289700677523802007-12-02T20:32:00.000-08:002007-12-02T20:32:00.000-08:00I went libertarian before reading Rand, but then I...I went libertarian before reading Rand, but then I did read her, and I ended up reading a lot of other writers and philosophers because of her. I had a philosophy class with Ronald Nash that did it for me.Troy Camplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16515578686042143845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11235100.post-84334920289736891722007-09-23T12:41:00.000-07:002007-09-23T12:41:00.000-07:00Actually anonymous, you don't need to apologize fo...Actually anonymous, you don't need to apologize for not reading a lot of Hoppe. The more one reads of him, the more one might tend to realize that! (He does, I submit, offer some great insights on liberty though.) All kidding aside, there is a little bit too much "South will rise again" lunacy and a little bit too much neo-Confederate overtone in some "libertarian" prose. That's unfortunate, since methodological individualism should be about <I>all</I> individuals, not just the ones with whom one happens to share an ideology or a skin-tone. In other news, I continue to expand my reading. I hope you do the same.Wilt Alstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165872744465258967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11235100.post-72797459998883565002007-08-09T01:46:00.000-07:002007-08-09T01:46:00.000-07:00I only read one Ayn Rand book before becoming an a...I only read one Ayn Rand book before becoming an anarcho-capitalist, and her book wasn't even the primary impetus for my doing so. I suppose you could say I was influenced by her, but it was a guerilla attack on her part--and besides the one I read (Anthem) bore certain strong resemblances to Yevgeny Zemyatin's "We", which I also read at the time (Basically, "Anthem" is "We" with a better understanding of the economic effects of dictatorship and more stuff about hardcore individualism and the ego, blah.). For me, it was Zemyatin/Rand and then Molyneux sealed the deal.Nasikabatrachushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06610422708932948941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11235100.post-1165310015022836142006-12-05T01:13:00.000-08:002006-12-05T01:13:00.000-08:00Well, at least Block isn't too bad. But you do nee...Well, at least Block isn't too bad. But you do need to expand your reading. I apologize for ever having read Rothbard. I don't apologize for refusing to have anything to do with Hoppe, Christian Reconstructions like North, League of the South members, white surpemacists, Joe Sobran and his anti-Jewish remarks or such.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com