Ayn Rand wasn't the only one to see it coming.
Posted by overmanwarrior 11 years, 6 months ago to History
Here is some haunting video from Robert Welch during the time when Rand was saying simlar things. 'Atlas Shrugged' was born from this time period.
ALTRUISM = SOCIALISM, FASCISM, COMMUNISM
"Every dictatorship uses the altruist morality
to make men sacrifice themselves or bear self-sacrifices. . . .
Only the altruist morality allows a dictator to GET AWAY WITH ENSLAVING men.
The dictator must offer his victims some kind of goal
and tell them to sacrifice their personal interests to it.
It is not physical danger that threatens you, and
it is
not military considerations that make
our so-called intellectual leaders tell you that we are doomed.
That is merely their rationalization.
The real danger is that communism is an enemy whom
they do not dare to fight on moral grounds, and
it can be fought ONLY ON MORAL GROUNDS.
This, then, is the choice. Think it over.
Consider the subject, check your premises, check past history
and find out whether it is true that men can never be free.
It isn't true, because they have been.
Find out what made it possible.
See for yourself."
- Ayn Rand
"Faith And Force: The Destroyers Of The Modern World," 1960
Reprinted in the book "Philosophy: Who Needs It," 1984
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