Ayn Rand's View of Liberals...
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -v s- Tyranny Yesterday I ran a piece briefly introducing Ayn Rand's views on conservatives. Today, for the purpose of clarification with respect to her view of liberals, and liberalism in general I offer the following... In her words “Liberals” 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. The goal of the “liberals”—as it emerges from the record of the past decades—was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified ...