http://standpointmag.co.uk/Overrated-Underrated The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/4268 <p><b>Author:</b>Michael Mosbacher</p> <br />(David Smith)  In 1950s and 1960s New York there flourished a political cult which claimed that it — and it alone — had the answer to all political, philosophical and economic questions. Its adherents, most famously Alan Greenspan, called themselves objectivists and maintained that their guru, the Russian émigré novelist Ayn Rand, was the living embodiment of reason. Those not agreeing with objectivism's conclusions — support for unfettered capitalism, radical individualism and dogmatic atheism — were either evil or stupid, they maintained.<p><a href="http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/4268"><span>read more</span></a></p> http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/4268#comments Overrated Social Affairs Tony Benn Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:11:32 +0000 Frances Weaver 4268 at http://standpointmag.co.uk