In a series of intellectually electric conversations with Playboy's interviewer, Alvin Toffler, Miss Rand spoke clearly and urgently about her work and her views. [More]Interesting find.
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Ayn Rand's "Playboy" Interview
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"The man who has no purpose, but has to act, acts to destroy others."
A couple that I enjoyed were:
"Emotions are not tools of cognition."
and this exchange:
Toffler: "You are a declared anticommunist, antisocialist and antiliberal. Yet you reject the notion that you are a conservative. In fact, you have reserved some of your angriest criticism for conservatives. Where do you stand politically?"
Rand: "Correction. I never describe my position in terms of negatives. I am an advocate of laissez-faire capitalism, of individual rights—there are no others—of individual freedom. It is on this ground that I oppose any doctrine which proposes the sacrifice of the individual to the collective, such as communism, socialism, the welfare state, fascism, Nazism and modern liberalism. I oppose the conservatives on the same ground. The conservatives are advocates of a mixed economy and of a welfare state. Their difference from the liberals is only one of degree, not of principle."
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