Objectivist Center Executive Director Edward L. Hudgins met with a UGA College Republican delegation which included Chairman Katie Flanigan, PR Director Jeff Emanuel, and GACR North Georgia Field Director Matthew Willamson.
The Objectivist Center represents the intellectual legacy of 20th-century economic philosopher Ayn Rand, author of such works as Anthem, We the Living, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged. Objectivism, a libertarian philosophy which blends complete lassez-fair economics with conservative views on government, grew in the mid-20th century as a kind of "anti-communism," relating that to live for another, or to have one's rightful earnings and property taken forcibly to be given to another who had not earned them, was the supreme evil of government and of humankind. Ayn Rand wrote before and shortly after World War II, when communist Russia sprawled across half of the globe, and when the US government was growing more and more socialistic in response to the Great Depression and to FDR's beliefs in "guaranteed rights" to certain amounts of property and goods, regardless of whether or not the recipient had made any effort to achieve that "minimum" standard of living. Rand's philosophy deviates from the beliefs of many conservatives when it comes to God, as she was an avowed atheist.
Dr. Hudgins, an expert in economics and in government regulation and a former Director at the Cato Institute, spoke with the UGACRs at CPAC 2006 in Washington, D.C., addressing issues such as immigration and economics in the US, Ms. Rand's legacy, the split with the former representative of Rand's philosophy, Leonard Peikoff, and the upcoming movie project for Atlas Shrugged.
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