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Are there any actual criticisms of her philosophy that aren't leftist whining based on association of Objectivism with capitalism?

She gets criticized constantly but it's always just insults and never anything of substance. Can someone briefly tell me why Randian objectivism is seen as a dog shit philosophy?

What other philosophers have chosen noble death in suicide rather than concede the integrity of their philosophy? Ayn Rand for example believed that medical warnings against tobacco were collectivist propaganda and refused to stop smoking, resulting in her death by heart disease. Truly she ranks alongside Socrates in philosophic integrity.

Could you justify genociding every adherent of a certain philosophy you particularly despise? I think I could.

As someone who knows nothing about her, why does everyone hate her?

can someone explain why rand isn't considered a "real" philosopher by the mainstream? What even is a "real" philosopher anyway? I thought all philosophies are real, it's just that some are better argued than others. I suspect it's just people dismissing her ideas without actually debating them, but I'm not well versed in the subject and I am unable to determine if their statements have any veracity.

What would she say about the phenomenon of life streaming (i.e. twitch)? Would she disprove of the live streamer asking for donations or would she hate the viewers who watch for free?

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*blocks your path*

Was she high every time she wrote or too burthurtted to bolsheviks?

You know Ayn Rand is a true Avant-garde artist. She was writing novel-length, incoherent monologues by mentally unstable obsessives decades before Thomas Bernhard and William Gass.

best answer: start with the greeks

or you could go for rand and objectivism instead

she loves neophytes, and you'll feel wickedly smart

until you realize later that you could have started with the greeks

whatever tho, you'll learn something

So I got both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged for Christmas. Which should I read first?

I'm guessing from the pepe that you don't like Jews, so Ayn Rand and Esther Vilar are out of the question.

I've never read any Virginia Woolf so I don't know if she's worth reading or not.

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