Objectivism has never been taken seriously by proper philosphers and has received little interest academia. She had a few famous fans such as Alan Greenspace once chairman of the Federal Reserve but other than that Objectivism has never really caught on. What’s more a dubious self-promotng conman called Howard Stanton Levey devised a derivative of Objectivism called Satsnism, clad in black, smeared with a veneer of occultism of the the sort Ayn Rand despised and then sold to asocial adolescent girls the world over.
In a way the Church of Satan is the legacy of Ayn Rand and its as superficial as her own skyscraper advertisement. It is quintessentially American and could exist nowhere else.
While in the UK the National Heatlh Service (NHS) is entering its 76th year and along with generous welfare state is the envy of the world.
CBW – I and the philosophy I devised are also a legacy of Ayn Rand. That is here. Sample of academic paper of mine is here. And it is far more important than any idiotic mysticism such as Satanism. My philosophy does not have a distinctive political philosophy or esthetics ensconced in it. But it has a metaphysics with a theory of knowledge and an ethics, both extremely tight with the metaphysics. Political views are not the core of intelligent human being.
By late high school I was a Christian Socialist. In college with underground reading of Rand, she dissuaded me from that. Today, I’d label myself a libertarian Democrat (or vice versa). That is nothing of what is really important about me. By the way, there is now a book that is a very good complement and rounding out of Rand’s collection Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. This book is Capitalism in America – A History (2018) by Greenspan and Wooldridge. Much blame for capitalism being here goes to Britain.
Rand was an amateur philosopher of the sort who addresses large traditional issues in philosophy. That is how she is described in the Oxford Companion to Philosophy, and it is not meant for amateur to be derogatory, only that she was not an academic philosopher. After her mature philosophical novels, young people on their way to Ph.D.'s in Philosophy got acquainted with her (a couple of them became world-renowned Aristotle scholars), and they and the next generation of Ph.D.'s mentored by them wrote professional-level works in her philosophy, which continues. A Blackwell’s Companion book A Companion to Ayn Rand has issued (2016). An auxilliary of the American Philosophical Association was formed called The Ayn Rand Society. Its professional members engage with other professional philosophers who are not Objectivists, and some books collecting many of those papers exchanging views have been published by the University of Pittsburg Press. (By the way, for all my overlap with Rand’s philosophy, I am strictly speaking not an Objectivist because of disagreements on some essentials of that philosophy in ethics and epistemology. I respect Rand’s thought even where I disagree with her.)
I’m pretty sure, CBW, that the biggest and most important legacies of Ayn Rand are quiet and personal. One: By end of first year of college, I had fallen into a bad psychological state, suicidal. I entered a private mental hospital to which I had brought my small Bible and a copy of The Fountainhead, which latter a cousin had given me on the preceding Christmas. The hospital urged I not bring in my Bible, as its mere appearance can trigger some into going berserker. My shrink encouraged me at my bed during those three weeks to continue and finish The Fountainhead. It saved my life. It illustrated that in spite of all the crummy things that had eventuated for me so far, I could and should strike out again for the territories of achievement. And I should love myself.
I think there is value for society to be found in intelligent attention to Politics , capital p.
The sectarian warfare of modern politics , especially in the US , is an artifact of the nature of changes in culture , evolution doesn’t always produce winners, lol.
But I have a suspicion that the OP isn’t really interested in an honest discussion, feels more like baiting.
Okay OP is clearing o drugs and and no idea whatsoever what he is talking about. Evil nonsense from complete idiots is not supposed to be allowed on this forum. It’s supposed to be instantly moderated.