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Entry: Whittaker Chambers Versus Ayn Rand Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/whittaker_chambers_versus_ayn_rand#7793 Post contents: Just because you disagree with Chambers'interpretation of Rand doesn't make him a neo-con. Yes, he was a former commie convert to conservatism, but his was a true and thorough 180 conversion. Read Witness, one of the great books of the 20th century. He left communism as a result of not being able to accept the changing Stalinist lines, one day against Hitler, one day for. Once he came to accept objective truth, he came to accept a Spiritual Reality underlying such truth. So he became, not only paleo-conservative/libertarian critic of Big Government, but a Christian mystic, a Quaker and a pacifist. His war on communism was not military, but intellectual, moral and spiritual. It would only be won by fidelity to God-given precepts of absolute spiritual truth. From his perspective as a philosphical mystic, Rand is indeed an egocentric materialist and,like Hitler, a radical social darwinist who leaves little space for the Christian values of compassion and community. Sent at: 2008 07 24