Is it possible for an Objectivist to be a kind of progressive?

[Boojatta]

If people self-classify as "progressive Objectivists" then does that imply that they are progressives?

[bettyellen]

1. howard roarke laughed.

[swag]

5. I'll be dipped. I didn't know he had a sense of humor.

[EstimatedProphet]

6. That's a good book

It does a good job of explaining Randroids

[swag]

7. I enjoyed it.

Also, as I've posted here and elsewhere ad nauseam, I really enjoy the send-up given to that crew in Mary Gaitskill's novel Two Girls Fat and Thin, which is one of those books I reread every few years, such intense delight does it give me.

[EstimatedProphet]

2. In a word: no

A "progressive objectivist" would probably believe slavery should be stopped unless it generates a really whole lot of money.

[JVS]

4. That's the stance we see taken towards paying illegal aliens shit wages!

The whole "Yeah, but if we don't do it, vegetables will cost a fortune" argument

[bettyellen]

8. and if you actullay pay what it costs to make things, shopping wouldn't be

the entertainment spectacular it's cracked up to be.

[redqueen]

9. or that it shouldn't be in the first place

shopping as a hobby makes me ill... all those bags, all that packaging... and most of it for useless knicknacks... bleh

[Deja Q]

3. Which is ironic, Objectivists only look at what's best for the money.

They can't be objective about anything else...