uuu time for one of my fav sentences lul
The worst thing the Bolsheviks did was give Ayn Raynd an education
btw here is a step by step guide to Ayn Raynd’s life:
1: be born into obscene wealth
2: be 12, a civil war breaks out, flee to white-controlled crimea
3: the reds win, nationalise the fathers pharmacy
3.5: the reds win, without that she would have never seen a university from the inside
4: be 16 and among the first women to go to university
7: fuck off to the US to whine and cry
8: write incoherent, economically completely unfeasible, idealist defense of a hypothetical capitalism
9: profit
(this is shamelessly copied from a Reddit comment)
Missed a step between 7 and 8. Become an amphetamine addict and marry wealth.
The incoherent writing and paranoia make more sense.
mbmb, didn’t pay enough attention in Bioshock
the lack of 5 and 6 is pretty damn funny
Correction on 9: die broke and on welfare.
Sheeple, how dare you regurgitate other people’s opinions smhhh. /s No idea bout what she wrote about ngl, I’ll check out a quick summary tho
There is always room for Ayn rand in the trash. It’s entirely worthy of its own pile.
Kindling would be more useful. Keep it in an emergency pack in case you wind up homeless.
I dont know. The ambient stupidity of Ayn Rand might lead you to homelessness. It certainly led her there.
It’s not worth the risk. Best to have it piled among the primordial shit it came from.
both author’s books need to be in the trashcan
Who’s the second author?
Max Stirner. Some kind of weird egoistic anarchist. Friedrich Engels liked him a lot in his early years. If I am right Karl Marx wrote a lot about him, but mostly how stupid his ideas were.
Just finished Stirner’s book, it’s interesting. (although I do not agree with even half of the things he says)
Marx and Engels wrote about him in “The German Ideology”, criticizing him harshly, but the book was only published after their death.
Yeah, I looked it up and gave a link to wikipedia here, already. I was not sure, cause the last time I read something about him was like 10 years, ago. You have to read the exchange between Marx and Engels, you’ll find more there. It’s obvious that nobody would remember Stirner, if Marx & Engels hadn’t critized his ideas.
The edition I read has a commentary at the end that talks about various people’s opinions of the book in the years following its publication, and quotes some passages from Marx and Engels’ letters.
It’s amazing how few people have maintained a positive opinion about him/his work for more than a few years
To be fair 2/3rds of any given Marx book is him dunking on other people’s ideas.
Nah Stirner was based.
LOL! Hell no, he wasn’t. His ideas were simple, stupid and had not really a connection to the reality. It works maybe on a personal level, but mostly in your mind. If you have a connection with economics and the materialistic world, nah - it doesn’t. I think the funniest part is that nobody would remember him, if Engels didn’t make a lot of jokes about him. Even the only existing portrait of him is from Engels making fun of him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_German_Ideology
Homie claimed that all institutions were spooks, only to reinvented the social contract.
There are less people remembering Engels than Stirner…
In what world? Outside of the shitposting of some political internet bubbles Stirner is practically unheard of, while Engels is a cornerstone of scientific socialism and materialist philosophy in general
a cornerstone of scientific socialism and materialist philosophy in general
Reads like the rusty letters of a long transformed institution of ‘state socialism’. Egoism doesn’t give a shit about Stirner.
Okay ignoring his ideas the Stirner head has some great independent meme material.
I think I stole it from PhilosophyMemes in the before times. They had some really great ones. I agree that Stirner is not someone to look up to, but he makes for a great meme.
