At the height of the Cold War, Playboy magazine asked free market thinker and Russian author Ayn Rand, “Would you actively advocate that the United States invade Cuba or the Soviet Union?”
Rand replied, “Not at present. I don’t think it’s necessary. I would advocate that which the Soviet Union fears above all else: economic boycott, I would advocate a blockade of Cuba and an economic boycott of Soviet Russia; and you would see both of those regimes collapse without the loss of a single American life.”
I find it interesting that the globalist, pseudocapitalist Ayn Rand Institute denounces every aspect of Trump’s foreign and economic policy. And yet: Rand’s proposed economic boycott and blockade of Soviet Russia and Communist Cuba are more strenuous than Trump’s tariffs on China. The 21st Century Ayn Rand Institute, if consistent, would be forced to complain that Ayn Rand’s proposed economic boycott of Soviet Russia back in 1960 would be a violation of the economic individual rights of Americans to trade with the victims and slaves living under dictatorship.
More evidence that the Ayn Rand Institute and Ayn Rand have nothing whatsoever to do with each other.
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