Recorded on May 12, 2022.
Swoletariat's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCko8bu6w_OpE8DlKDubg9sQ.
[Add 35 seconds to get more accurate timestamps below. This is due to the intro I added for the podcast version about the audio problem at the beginning.]
Interview:
0:00 Objectivism vs. Libertarianism
1:33 My background, Objectivists in academia, and how I got interested in Objectivism
5:07 What’s The Ayn Rand Institute?
6:06 What drew you to Objectivism?
7:09 What observations of yours were confirmed by Rand? Mother Teresa and altruism. Are you religious?
12:09 What is altruism and where does it come from?
Debate:
18:36 Swoletariat’s view of self-interest, altruism, and capitalism
25:30 The meaning of selfishness and capitalism
32:12 Are police and military coercive? Drug laws and capitalism.
40:35 Swoletariat’s view of capitalism and its history
47:57 My view of capitalism and its history (Locke and the Founding Fathers)
52:44 Were the Indians coerced? Property rights.
1:01:14 Is capitalism’s origin necessarily coercive?
1:04:44 Capitalism and the meaning of freedom/coercion
1:08:46 Is homelessness a choice?
(More timestamps may be added later.)
#AynRand #capitalism #Marxism #coercion #freedom
