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On 18 Dec 2002 at 9:50, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> Yeah, the Objectivists (TM) seem to have been taken over by
> militant zionist interventionists too.
Of all the advanced states, Israel is arguably the one that
accords least with Objectivist ideals. It is nominally
socialist in land and quite a lot of other stuff. Of course if
you are Jewish, that socialism can be set aside -- and is set
aside to a greater or lesser extent for most Jews, though some
Jews find it a lot easier to have a nominally socialist state
treat stuff they care about as private property than other
Jews. Objectivists having orgasms over Israel because it is
supposedly a liberal democracy is rather like communists having
orgasms over Cuba because it was supposedly egalitarian.
It is also entertaining that the socialism of Israel is, like
the socialism of the Sandinistas, a lot more socialist for
ethnic groups that are hated than ethnic groups that are
favored, which reminds me of the argument I sometimes hear from
socialists about West Germany -- that all Germans were evil
hateful nazi murderers, and therefore should have had a
socialist economy imposed on them.
But I ramble and digress. To get back on point, if those who
purport to be objectivists are also militant zionist
interventionists, we should not take their supposed objectivist
ideals too seriously.
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James A. Donald
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