(June 15, 2021 at 2:00 pm)Nomad Wrote: She didn't develop sound critiques of systems she wasn't against. She built rotten strawmen and then singularly failed to tear them down. Her whole corpus was the wailing screed of a spoilt child convinced she knew everything while revealing that she knew fuck all. Her whole problem sith communism was that Lenin didn't see her "obvious greatness" not the evils within the system and her "solution" would have lasted roughly a half a day before turning into cannabalistic anarchy.
She was worthless, her books were worthless (in fact her best book Anthem was an undisguised theft of the much better We by Zelmatyn), and her worldview an affront to allmoral people.
She showed collectivism stifles individuality. That's valid and sound. But taken too far you get anti-maskers. I don't get worked up over it or seek moral high ground.
