Ayn Rand’s Objectivist Community

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AYN RAND RULES

What is Objectivism

• The philosophy of Ayn Rand is Ethical Egotism– This basically means that basically that you

are the most important thing—to yourself—and that the individual is more important then any state or government

• This philosophy is the basis of the libertarian movement and to the Objectivist Party.

Libertarianism

• The biefe in a limited government whit the sole purpose of protecting the people of that states rights.

Objectivist Party

• A political party in several states• Each state has an affiliate whit a

president, VP, secrititary, and treasure.– the New York Affiliate also as an Executive

Assistant

• The Party is chaired by Dr. Tom Stevens– He is also the President of OPNY

• The Party had a canaditate for President—Dr. Tom Stevens

The Party part 2

• The party is also has an international following.

• The party as a list of holidays which includes Ayn Rand’s bithday February 2nd

• The party is a very active

• It holds bi-monthly events

Web Site: www.objectivistparty.us

The Ayn Rand Institute

• Founded by Rand’s interlacural hair Leonard S. Peikoff.

• The institute is broken into sevral sub-institutes– The purpose of all of them is to advance the

Objectivist Movement and the philosophy

Web Site: www.aynrand.org

Philosophers Agaisnt the Philosophy

• William Buckley—a rightest—declared in his obituary for the New York Times that: "Ayn Rand is dead. So, incidentally, is the philosophy she sought to launch dead; it was in fact stillborn."

• Noam Chomsky a ‘left philosopher’ considers Rand: "one of the most evil figures of modern intellectual history."

Other Reasons Against it

• People Belive that the folowers of the movement don’t care about others.

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