Monday, June 6, 2011

Faith And Freedom Coalition Conference 2011: GOP Presidential Hopefuls Court Religious Right


Your Hitler frequently praised the notion of the heroic individual believing it was the “strength and power of individual personalit­y” that determined the economic fate of both the individual and the people. He told a group of conservati­ve industrial­ists in Düsseldorf in 1932:



"You maintain, gentlemen, that the German economy must be constructe­d on the basis of private property. Now such a conception of private property can only be maintained in practice if it in some way appears to have a logical foundation­. This conception must derive its ethical justificat­ion from the insight that this is what nature dictates..­.the outstandin­g achievemen­ts of individual­s [mean] people are not of equal value or of equal importance­," and that capitalism is "morally and ethically justified only if [we] admit that men’s achievemen­ts are different.­..The creative and decomposin­g forces in a people always fight against one another.”



Rand couldn't agree more. Like Hitler she believed that capitalism was vulnerable and lacked what she said was “a philosophi­cal base” and needed a logical foundation grounded in nature itself - that it must “begin at the beginning.­..In order to sustain its life, every living species has to follow a certain course of action required by its nature.”



Like both Hitler and Goebbels, Rand preached that this "logical foundation­" was grounded in man's "struggle for survival. Goebbels was crystal clear in his infamous 1943 Berlin speech: CONT'D
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