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tenderfoot

(8,434 posts) Wed Sep 14, 2016, 02:15 PM Sep 2016

Literary humor featuring Ayn Rand and Karl Marx

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Literary humor featuring Ayn Rand and Karl Marx (Original Post) tenderfoot Sep 2016 OP

My guess is that "Atlas Shrugged" will be around Cyrano Sep 2016 #1

Cyrano

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1. My guess is that "Atlas Shrugged" will be around

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Wed Sep 14, 2016, 03:01 PM

Sep 2016

for a very long time.

Many take her writings as a philosophy, and I suppose it is since so many believe it and live by it. (e.g. Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House loves it and lives by it. And who knows how many thousands more?)

I read it years ago and felt that she preferred "super-intelligent makers" as opposed to the rest of us "takers." Put another way, she didn't seem to give a damn about "average, normal" human beings who do their best to survive.

I don't believe in book burning so I gave it away.

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