Socialist theorists and not writing coherently, name a more iconic duo.

Bookchin was apparently an Ayn Rand fan 😬

He has “mixed feelings” about them, then immediately goes into fanboy trivia about his favorite character

And mixes up private and personal property throughout, which is fucking weird for an anarchist to do.

I don’t wanna get into the territory of sexual pathology as politics, but Rand apparently had some kind of submission and/or rape fetish that probably leaked into her general worldview

Internalized misogyny is a fuck. Rand wrote a lot in Atlas Shrugged about it somehow being empowering for women to “allow” themselves to be owned by men.

If you don’t reconcile or accept your fetishes / sexuality, it will absolutely come out in random unhealthy ways that are extremely obvious to everyone else.

Rand wrote a lot in Atlas Shrugged about it somehow being empowering for women to “allow” themselves to be owned by men.

It’s like she’s the evil mirror universe version of William Moulton Marston.

As someone who has read Atlas Shrugged, yeah, she does. Like, it’s not even subtle. Every sex scene in that book is gross. And apparently Fountainhead is worse? What a world.

Well he is on record saying that he would side with ancaps and libertarians against AUTHORITARIAN LEFTISTS (mls , leninists ,maoists etc)…

We like to mock takes like that as “reddit anarchist” phenomenon but fucking popular figureheads of “libleft” thought have these wall worthy radlib “viewpoints”. Too much chomsky or Bookchin rots the brain

Sectarian brainworms in general are cringe and don’t reflect the realty of leftism in the imperial core. Important not to read any theory as scripture, leads you down the path of the armchair lifestylist.

Bioshock is the most honest exploration of “objectivism” that will ever appear in pop culture.

It was on sale for super cheap on switch and I tried it. Wasn’t into it.

I get that. The mechanics haven’t aged as well as other games, but it was a great ride at the time.

I never read Atlas Sucked mostly because South Park told me it was a book for chicken fuckers, a book so singularly bad it justified analphabetism. This is why I still have residual respect for Matt and Trey

But from the summary I assume looters is a cute term for soc-dem or even just Keynesian politicians.

It’s really funny how there’s this big internecine conflict inside libertarianism between the Objectivists and the people who really fucking hate Ayn Rand. Like one of the most thorough takedowns of Ayn Rand’s cult was written by IIRC Murray fucking Rothbard of all people. It’s like you’ve got this bloc who have this sort of hero-figure of a sociopathic “visionary” executive-founder-owner-engineer as literal Atlas analogue holding up businesses with the angularness of his chin and doing everything for everyone, and then a separate bloc who think corporate executives are communists and the “real” hero figures are small settler businessmen who seize resources that were “just there existing without being exploited” (either literally or figuratively), and they both just scream that the other bloc are fascists and rubes.

And of course the truth is that both of those blocs are basically fascist, or at least siblings to fascism.

:stalin-approval: “No, no, we’re going to kill all of you fashy boiz.”

Looters is a cute term for actual workers and not the owning class lol

People tried to do that during the BLM uprisings. It ended about as well as you’d expect.

You saved valuable time, it’s not worth reading and is also aggressively misogynistic.

real Bobson Dougnut names ovah here

Ayn Rand honestly believed that whenever the railroad managers or execs call in sick they take all the trains and rail home

She actually just thought that all workers are just stupid automaton subs that can’t function without a dom.

Middle Earth had better names.

Dune had better names.

The Metal Gear Solid franchise had better names.

Ironically, fairly early Bookchin is mostly better than late Bookchin. I recommend Post-Scarcity Anarchism.

I like the ideas of Apoism - synthesizing Bookchin with Mao - but everything I can find from Oçalan translated into English is vague as hell.

Earlyish Bookchin is decent and he made some interesting contributions to anarchist theory, but he needed a goddamn editor. Even his good books are kind of a mess imo.

I have a pretty low tolerance for people who don’t get to the point, for what it’s worth. I have the same criticism of different marxist-adjacent writers as well (zizek comes to mind).

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“and now I will write sho terribly about ze philosophy of gender that othersh zink I am a transhphobe deshpite jusht being a dumbash and sho on and sho forth”

Seriously, read his shitty article on gender liberation where he makes up his own definition of gender and then argues about it with himself while not clearly even switching perspectives. Complete fucking mess.

Literally the same energy, thank you for getting that I wasn’t being sectarian.

This better not have been a “marxists always write perfectly” take because… they really don’t either.

Least insane French person

Althusser is based and readable. The best philosopher out of the French scene.

The protagonist of The Fountainhead actually rapes a woman and then blows up a housing project he designed because the construction company changed the slant of some of the roofs

He then defends himself in court without a lawyer by claiming he was allowed to blow it up because he’s basically the same as a god because the housing projects wouldn’t exist without him. The protagonist defends himself so well the main antagonist (a socialist newspaper editor) shoots himself in the head with a pistol he had always kept at his work desk specifically for that purpose. The protagonist then gets a job designing the tallest building on earth and the woman he raped falls madly in love with him. The end.

What the fuck, Rand was a fucking psycho.

the soviet union did one thing wrong

Giving her an education was good, not re-educating her when she became a reactionary chud was not.

They let her get away instead of sending her to the :gulag:

And that’s the least bad Rand book lmaooo

Reminder that if you’re a teacher in the US, the Ayn Rand society can ship you free toilet paper.

:bruh: also what kind of a socialist hasn’t met a man on a power trip they’re called managers wtf

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