Objectivism

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"I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows."

File:Ayn Rand.png Ayn Rand

Objectivism also known as Randism or Randianism is a philosophy of author and philosopher File:Ayn Rand.png Ayn Rand. On political matters, objectivists favour free market capitalism and the opposition to File:Sec.png statism.

History

Rand originally expressed her philosophical ideas in her novels - most notably, in both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. She further elaborated on them in her periodicals The Objectivist Newsletter, The Objectivist, and The Ayn Rand Letter, and in non-fiction books such as Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology and The Virtue of Selfishness.

The name "Objectivism" derives from the idea that human knowledge and values are objective: they exist and are determined by the nature of reality, to be discovered by one's mind, and are not created by the thoughts one has. Rand stated that she chose the name because her preferred term for a philosophy based on the primacy of existence—"existentialism"—had already been taken.

Rand characterized Objectivism as "a philosophy for living on earth", based on reality, and intended as a method of defining human nature and the nature of the world in which we live.

Beliefs

When discussing Objectivism it is important to note that it isn't merely an ideology but rather a full philosophy, meaning that instead of just being a theory of politics it's a theory of philosophy as a whole (meaning: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics as well as politics). Or at least that's what it's intended to be.

Metaphysics

As Ayn Rand wrote in "The Metaphysical Versus the Man-Made" (Philosophy: Who Needs It): "The primacy of existence (of reality) is the axiom that existence exists, i.e., that the universe exists independent of consciousness (of any consciousness), that things are what they are, that they possess a specific nature, an identity.

Epistemology

Rand bases her solution to the problem of universals on a quasi-mathematical analysis of similarity. Rejecting the common view that similarity is unanalysable, she defines similarity as: "the relationship between two or more existents which possess the same characteristic(s), but in different measure or degree."

The grasp of similarity, she holds, requires a contrast between the two or more similar items and a third item that differs from them, but differs along the same scale of measurement (which she termed a "Conceptual Common Denominator"). Thus two shades of blue, to be perceived as similar must be contrasted with something differing greatly in hue from both—e.g., a shade of red.

Accordingly, Rand defines "concept" as: a "mental integration of two or more units possessing the same distinguishing characteristic(s) with their particular measurements omitted."

Ethics

The provocative title of Ayn Rand’s The Virtue of Selfishness matches an equally provocative thesis about ethics. Traditional ethics has always been suspicious of self-interest, praising acts that are selfless in intent and calling amoral or immoral acts that are motivated by self-interest. A self-interested person, on the traditional view, will not consider the interests of others and so will slight or harm those interests in the pursuit of his own. Rand’s view is that the exact opposite is true: Self-interest, properly understood, is the standard of morality and selflessness is the deepest immorality. Self-interest rightly understood, according to Rand, is to see oneself as an end in oneself.

Politics

Although her political views are often classified as conservative or libertarian, Rand preferred the term "radical for capitalism". She worked with conservatives on political projects, but disagreed with them over issues such as religion and ethics. Rand denounced libertarianism, which she associated with anarchism.

Aesthetics

The essence of Rand's view of art is that an artwork presents a philosophy, that is, a basic view of life. To identify what an artwork concretizes, Rand introduces her concept of metaphysical value-judgments. Rand's aesthetic theory, being reached inductively rather than being deductively imposed on phenomena, allows for special cases which differ in certain respects, such that the same general principles apply in a somewhat different way. Architecture and music are such cases. Rand's championing of Romanticism is one more case in which she applies the principle that underlies her entire aesthetics. Art serves a fundamental need of man's consciousness by bringing his concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allowing him to grasp them directly, as if they were precepts, thereby unifying man's consciousness and offering him a coherent view of existence

Variants

File:Rapture.png Andrew Ryanism

Andrew Ryan, a fictional industrialist and philosopher within the video game BioShock, serves as a narrative embodiment of extreme laissez-faire capitalism and objectivist philosophy. Born in the Soviet Union and later immigrating to the United States, Ryan’s early experiences with communism profoundly shaped his political worldview. Witnessing the oppressive collectivism of the Soviet state instilled in him a deep anti-communism and skepticism toward unions and worker movements, which he perceived as threats to individual achievement and enterprise. His disdain for labor organizing is reflected in his anti-union stance, as he consistently frames labor as an instrument of societal control, undermining personal liberty and innovation within his underwater city, Rapture.

Ryan’s philosophical commitment to self-reliance extended to his rejection of charity and welfare programs. He believed that social aid weakens human potential, a conviction that underpinned Rapture’s societal structure. This connects to his later advocacy for authoritarian capitalism, where the state enforces property rights and contracts but otherwise avoids interference in economic affairs. Ryan’s autocratic control over Rapture’s infrastructure and enforcement mechanisms illustrates the paradox of his ideology: while championing freedom in commerce, he maintained an File:Auto-2.pngautocracy to safeguard the capitalist system from internal dissent and external influence.

Rapture’s geopolitical philosophy demonstrates Ryan’s commitment to File:Autarky.pngautarky and File:Isolationist.pngisolationism. By constructing an underwater city physically removed from the world, he sought to create a society free from governmental oversight and international regulation, reflecting a vision of complete economic and cultural self-sufficiency. This isolation allowed Ryan to implement policies reflecting File:Plutocrat.pngplutocracy, rewarding only those who achieved exceptional wealth and talent while marginalizing the poor or unskilled. His enforcement apparatus, including heavily armed security forces, embodies File:PolState.pngpolice statism, ensuring that personal freedom in enterprise does not translate into disorder or challenges to his authority.

Ryan’s worldview is further informed by File:Darwinist.pngsocial Darwinism, which guided both his economic and social policies. In his perspective, human progress depends on competition, and societal hierarchies should naturally favor the most capable individuals. This belief rationalizes Rapture’s extreme inequality, where survival and success depend entirely on merit, innovation, and personal drive. Additionally, his commitment to state atheism aligns with his objectivist philosophy, rejecting religious influence as a constraint on reason, industry, and human achievement.

Despite the philosophical rigor underlying Ryan’s vision, his personal history and experiences reveal the inherent contradictions in his beliefs. His fear of collective action and government interference, while rooted in early exposure to Soviet totalitarianism, ultimately leads to a society that requires coercion and violence to maintain order. The tension between absolute individual freedom and enforced authority illustrates the practical difficulties of implementing authoritarian capitalism in a closed ecosystem. Andrew Ryan remains a compelling study of how extreme ideological commitments—shaped by personal history, philosophical reasoning, and societal context—can simultaneously inspire innovation and precipitate societal collapse.

Personality

Objectivism in comics will usually display exaggerated traits of her founder, Ayn Rand.

• Often depicted to be selfish, and proud to be so.
• Writes mediocre fiction.
• In some comics shown to REEEEE at collectivists.
• Loves bosses.
• Will beat you to death with her bare hands if you are a freeloader/thief.
• Her favorite game is Bioshock, but only the opening monologue.

How to Draw

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Flag of Objectivism

1. Draw a ball with eyes and a pink bow
2. Separate the ball into 2 equal diagonal sides of Gold on the top and Light Blue on the bottom
3. On the ball draw a white circle outline, with arched lines in it.
4. Below the globe draw a person holding it up.

And you're finished!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Gold	#FFD101	rgb(255, 209, 1)
	Blue	#527EF7	rgb(82, 126, 247)
	White	#FFFFFF	rgb(255, 255, 255)

Отношения (Relationships)

Способные люди (Men of Ability)

• File:Minarchist.png Minarchism - Shares my beliefs on economics and the state.
• Capitalism - My dad and the only economical system compatible with my philosophy.
• File:Clib.png Classical Liberalism - He’s a big inspiration of mine. He has an excellent blueprint for the economy.
• File:Zio.png Zionism - Israel is the only democratic, civilized country in the Middle East, and I support the Israeli people against their savage enemies.
• File:Neobert.png Neo-Libertarianism - The only other one in my quadrant who agrees with me on the Middle East and Manifest Destiny.
• File:Secular.png Secularism - I’m an atheist, and I think religion is just superstitious nonsense. However, I also believe that people should be able to follow whatever religion they want to.
• File:Imp.png Imperialism - "File:Native.png [The Native Americans] didn't have any rights to the land and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived and were not using... What was it they were fighting for, if they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their "right" to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or maybe a few caves above it. Any white person who brought the element of civilization had the right to take over this continent." - Ayn Rand
• File:Aristotle.png Aristotelianism - A-is-A.
• American Model & File:Civnat.png Civic Nationalism - "I can say—not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political, and esthetic roots—that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest, and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world."
• Individualism - "I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you."

Обычные люди (Ordinary Men)

• Anarcho-Capitalism - "All kinds of people today call themselves 'libertarians,' especially something calling itself the New Right, which consists of hippies who are anarchists instead of leftist collectivists; but anarchists are collectivists. Capitalism is the one system that requires absolute objective law, yet libertarians combine capitalism and anarchism. That’s worse than anything the New Left has proposed. It’s a mockery of philosophy and ideology."
• File:Libertarian.png Libertarianism - For the last time, You haven't addressed my philosophy, epistemology, and ethics, so I'm not you. we aren't the same! I don't care how much you think we look alike! Read above.
• File:Libertfem.png Libertarian Feminism - An improvement of File:Fem.png her, but the collectivist identity politics of feminism aren't really compatible with my kind of values.
• File:Mansphere.png Manosphere - Not a fan but File:MGTOW.png MGTOW and Anthony Dream Johnson are good.
• File:Necon.png Neoconservatism - Yes, you have the moral right to invade dictatorships and Israel is worth supporting, but stop being so statist!
• File:Conservative.png Conservatism - "The value of a tradition is determined by whether it corresponds to the mind and life of man as a rational being", "Traditions, culture and social institutions are acceptable only as means, not as ends". We both support nuclear family, american values, moral rigorism, objective morality, teleology, essentialism, natural law theory and Aristotle, we both against hedonism, gays, leftism, progressivism, moral relativism, feminism and social justice. But be rational and down with religion.
• File:Conbertf.png Libertarian Conservatism - Post-Thanks for quoting me, now please stop the Bible thumping.
• File:Avar.png Avaritionism - YOU LITERALLY EAT THE POOR?! Cool!
• File:Whitesup.png White Nationalism - Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. The civil rights movement is assaulting our liberty.
• File:Gay.png Gays - You're immoral and disgusting. But Peikoff still supports you for some reason. And I never had any children also.
• File:Hoppef.png Hoppeanism - We detest commies more than anything, but Intellectual property is true property!

Ось этатистов-альтруистов-коллективистов (statist-altruist-collectivist axis)

• File:Leftunity.png All the poors, beggars, and bums - You immoral, low-life, low-IQ, PARASITES!!!
• Anarchism - "Anarchy, as a political concept, is a naive floating abstraction: ...a society without an organized government would be at the mercy of the first criminal who came along and who would precipitate it into the chaos of gang warfare. But the possibility of human immorality is not the only objection to anarchy: even a society whose every member were fully rational and faultlessly moral, could not function in a state of anarchy; it is the need of objective laws and of an arbiter for honest disagreements among men that necessitates the establishment of a government." - Ayn Rand
• File:Polpot.png Pol Potism - Literally Anthem, but even worse!
• File:Ormarxf.png Marxism - Awful! We are both atheists and materialists.
• File:Synd.png Syndicalism - FUCKING PARASITE!!!
• File:Humanismpix.png Humanism - Another parasite, and support the completely wrong moral view.Wait, you're actually my left-wing variant.
• File:Nordmodel.png Nordic Model - "One of the reasons Swedish equality is so advanced is that the motive behind it is not just socialism, but an active dislike of people who are supposed to be better. You have to cut people down. Everyone must be equal. Make someone who’s exceptional feel unexceptional."
• Anarcho-Egoism - He's anti-philosophy and thinks private property is a spook.
• File:Fem.png Feminism - Identity politics are not good for achieving individualism, and I cannot stand this alliance with lesbians and prostitutes! Abortion rights are cool though.
• Marxism–Leninism - You are one reason why I left the Soviet Union. I hate you.
• File:Orthlen.png Leninism - I hate you too. You always failed.
• File:Pragmat.png Pragmatism - A-is-A, you support what is "workable" and not what is objectively true.
• File:Nazi.png Nazism - Evil Jew-hating collectivist. Don't talk of the time when I had a Nordicism fetish.
• File:Libsoc.png Libertarian Socialism - I'm not an oxymoron! You're the oxymoron!
• File:FDF-Pirate.png Piratism - It is the proper role of government to protect intellectual property through patents and copyrights, you parasite!
• File:Welf.png Welfarism - Stop wasting money on those who will never even be able to become a normal member of society, let everyone help themselves. And I didn't ask you to enroll me in Social Security and Medicare.
• File:Native.png Indigenism - "I believe, with good reason, the most unsympathetic Hollywood portrayal of Indians and what they did to the white man. They had no right to a country merely because they were born here and then acted like savages. The white man did not conquer this country. And you're racist if you object, because it means you believe that certain men are entitled to something because of their race. You believe that if someone is born in a magnificent country and doesn't know what to do with it, he still has a property right to it. He does not. Since the Indians did not have the concept of property or property rights-- they didn't have a settled society they had predominantly nomadic tribal "cultures" -- they didn't have rights to the land and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights that they had not conceived of and were not using." - Ayn Rand.
• File:Illeg.png Illegalism - You say that you are motivated by self-interest, and you still oppose capitalism?
• File:Hasanism.png Hasanism - THAT'S NOT WHAT RYAN MEANT!!!
• File:Reagan.png Reaganism - "Mr. Reagan is not a champion of capitalism, but a conservative in the worst sense of that word—i.e., an advocate of a mixed economy with government controls slanted in favor of business rather than labor." Thanks for taking down The USSR and pushing the 'Welfare Queen' rhetoric
• File:ProtTheo.png Protestant Theocracy - "The appalling disgrace of his administration is his connection with the so-called 'Moral Majority' and sundry other TV religionists, who are struggling—apparently with his approval—to take us back to the Middle Ages, via the unconstitutional union of religion and politics."
• File:Corp.png Corporatocracy - Thanks a lot, Reagan.
• File:Plcn2.png Conservatism File:Tradcon.png - “Conservatives are scurrying to ride on the enemy’s premises and, somehow, to achieve political freedom by stealth. It can’t be done”.
• File:Hegel.png Hegelianism - “Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”

Bibliography

Prime Literature

By Ayn Rand

• Philosophy: Who Needs It? (Metaphysics)
• Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (Epistemology)
• The Virtue of Selfishness | Audiobook (Ethics)
• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal | Audiobook (Politics)
• The Fountainhead | Audiobook (Aesthetics)

Others

• The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America by File:Minarchist.png Leonard Peikoff
• The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics by David Harriman and File:Minarchist.png Leonard Peikoff
• Ayn Rand Nation: The Hidden Struggle for America’s Soul by Gary Weiss
• Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life by Michael Caine

by Anton Szandor LaVey

• The Satanic Bible
• The Satanic Rituals
• The Satanic Witch
• The Devil's Notebook
• Satan Speaks!

Further Information

Wikipedia

• Objectivism
• Objectivist movement
• Ayn Rand

Videos

• What is Objectivism? The Life and Philosophy of Ayn Rand | Polandball/Countryball History/Philosophy by CallMeEzekiel
• The Fountainhead in 5 Seconds

Websites

• The Atlas Society
• Capitalism Magazine
• The Intellectual Activist

Communities

• r/Objectivism

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