virus: O/objectivism (was RE: virus: Computer Laryngitis)

Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Thu, 6 Mar 1997 14:21:00 -0000

>From: Reed Konsler
>...Is the West objectivist? What is the cause of
>"prosperity" in the West...considering Rand wrote after 1900, as I recall?

I get the impression that anyone who appears to have been
consistently objective about anything is co-opted as an Objectivist.
This is just one example of a more general confusion in the minds
of Objectivists between objectivity (or perhaps, to be generous,
objectivism) and Objectivism.

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Robin Faichney
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