Off Topic — HabitableZone

Off Topic » in reply to re: No.

Still no.

Racial collectivism, political collectivism, or if you get into radical Islam, religious collectivism. All the same.

Individual rights left in the dust, and an "elite" somehow winding up in positions of absolute power in a society of "equals." Even in Nazi Germany, some Aryans were more equal than others. Everything else is details.

This was apparently written by a student in a college Objectivist organization, but it makes the point.

A somewhat more informal (and eyestraining) collection of quotes and such here.

Robert Heinlein boils it down:

Political tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth -- are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.

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