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   pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 21:11:42 JST pistolero

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   • イリエ
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   > How can we eliminate Ayn Rand's ideas from the American Right?
   
   I don't think she has much influence. She was kinda propped up as a PR maneuver and her writing is tedious and her philosophy was the negation of the USSR, which is dead.
   
   > but the inherent drive for atomization
   
   I think this is a myth, a bogeyman, something right-wing collectivists call individualists as a smear, but they repeat it as if that kind of person actually exists.
   
   There's a big difference between "zero collective interest" and "no involuntary collective membership". Consider a person that enlists in the military but still opposes the draft. The point of disagreement isn't whether loyalty should exist but who decides.
   
   I keep hearing that if I don't love the huwhite race that I am some kind of "atomized individual", a "rootless cosmopolitan", whatever; I don't think of myself that way: I have friends and family, I have colleagues, I participate in a culture. I signed up for that, though: I never signed up for a race, a nation-state, etc. I'm happy to oppose globalism because I also didn't sign up for a globalist regime that recognizes no limits to its authority.
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     イリエ (irie@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 21:11:45 JST イリエ
     How can we eliminate Ayn Rand's ideas from the American Right? For that matter, from the European Right too.
     
     >collectivism bad
     >worship of individualism
     >faith bad
     >radical self-interest
     >helping others bad
     >muh capitalism
     
     I understand this may sound good to some people, but these ideas undermine any attempt to resist Globalism as they essentially promote a form of Liberalism (freedom from, atomization) which is the backbone of Globalism. For Globalism to work, Liberalism has to smash a nation into individuals, liberating them from racial, religious, cultural, even gender collectives.
     
     I know Libertarians are natural allies to every anti-Globalist (anti-Liberal) group, by mere virtue of their dedication to personal freedom and free speech; but the inherent drive for atomization prevents a substantial resistance, which has to be the resistance of a collective; and in the case of opposing Globalism, it even has to be the resistance of ethnic collectives (Multipolarity).