Philosophies that are almost like religions?

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As a person she had many toxic relationships and was prone to contradictions.

I have more of an issue with the living Ayn Rand Institute 'heirs' like Leonard Peikoff and Yaron Brook.
If they are not talking about foreign policy I agree with a lot of what the Ayn Rand even current Objectivists are saying on topics in general (minimum wage, government regulation, central banking, economic freedom, sound money, etc). The Ayn Rand lexicon is a nice summary of her own non-fiction writing on topics like liberals, socialism, etc. She definitely is a lot more convincing and acerbic in her own non-fiction writing than Peikoff, Schwartz, etc.

I think she would loathe Trump - I would say he is like a pre-Roark meeting Gail Wynand (Fountainhead) mixed with a little of the President Robinson figurehead from Atlas. Definitely a pull peddler of the first order. She would hate Clinton too perhaps even worse for that matter but the ARI endorsed Clinton. Idiots.

Some of the philosophy is lacking refinement and self-awareness and the ability to acknowledge the lack of reason in some of the policy positions they take.

If they only followed the 'rational' nature of their philosophy perhaps they would see calls for a pre-emptive strike on Iran as a bad idea and the near blind support of the pro-Israeli government position one to step back from.

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Frankfurt School / Kantian post modernism especially among social sciences & humanities educators

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Connections are pretty easy to see. Yet you laugh it off. Nice.

Kant:
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Post modernism:

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Kant's struggle to the end goal which largely goes on outside the individual's direct experience results in equality for all which is in line with the socialists goal of communism.

Postmodernists of the French New Left and the Frankfurt school did not identify with the old-guard Marxist ways and they revamped their action on the campuses toward a similar struggle replacing the old class warfare with cultural warfare.

Kant also heavily wrote on the idea of duty to the other. Taken logically with the dialectical struggle it fits well with both Marxism and the New Left and the concerted efforts of the left behind so many of the social justice movements of the current era for their end goal - equality and the destruction of the traditional (patriarchal, white, male, cisgendered, heteronormative dominated) order.

It makes perfect sense that Kant's tomb in Kaliningrad was preserved by the Soviets.