Part 1 of a Discussion of Peter Foster’s Why We Bite the Invisible Hand Chapter 5 “The Passion of Ayn Rand” I was very young when I first read Ayn Rand. First, I read The Fountainhead and then Atlas Shrugged. I did not know much about anything, but I was intrigued by the idea…
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Why We Bite the Invisible Hand
The Authoritarianism Inherent to Owen’s Utopia
Part 1 of a Discussion of Peter Foster’s Why We Bite the Invisible Hand Chapter 4 “Dark Satanic Minds” Soon after capitalism was born a couple of hundred years ago, the anti-capitalist movement begins. Specifically, Foster discusses in this chapter Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ call for communism and lesser-known Robert Owen’s call for a…