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14. juli 2008

Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian 1

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Artikler i Nyhedsmagasinet RÆSON:

En plan for Liberalisterne: til angreb på Venstre

De andres idéer
Tre slags kollektivister
Hvem tager ansvar for uddannelsen?
Kyoto: planøkonomien slår til igen
EU a la Monty Python

Ayn Rand 1905-1982:

Om forretningsførelse og erhvervsliv vs. politik og bureaukrati:

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

Om mennesket og naturen

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

Om kollektivisme og statisme:

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

Om moral:

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Om civilisation:

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Om rettigheder - og hvorfor de findes:

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Om USA:

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose... the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before... Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

Mere om velstandsskabelse:

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

Om sammenhængen mellem viden og værdier (er og bør):

In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order to define a code of values, he must know what he is and where he is – i.e. he must know his own nature (including his means of knowledge) and the nature of the universe in which he acts – i.e. he needs metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, which means: philosophy. He cannot escape from this need; his only alternative is whether the philosophy guiding him is to be chosen by his mind or by chance.

Ayn Rand-kronikker i Berlingske Tidende:

Ayn Rand - ideer gør forskellen
Kollektivismens uhyrlighed

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14. juli 2008

Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian 1

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