[MD] Ayn Rand

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

> [Arlo]
>> [Rand] vehemently
>> proclaims her atheism and pretty much condemns religion of all sorts (she 
>> and
>> Marx share this point). How does this square with those who blame 
>> "secular
>> atheism" for the all the evils of modern history?
>
>
> In "For the New Intellectual", Rand blames evil on two types of people: 
> the
> "Witch Doctor" who uses faith rather than reason & "Attila" who uses force
> rather than reason.  For her Marx falls in the latter category.
> Craig

In terms of the MOQ what Marx and Engels did was to create a social pattern 
to harbour their intellectual values.
With that, as with everything, there is always the danger that the social 
pattern continues to work even when the intellectual values and ideas 
disappear. Mindless drones can do a lot of harm. That's why we need to 
enlighten them :P