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In spite of Ayn Rand explicitly distancing herself from anarcho-capitalism and libertarianism, people frequently refer to her as a prominent and inspirational such thinker. This subreddit serves to provide an easily accessible compilation of evidences proving that Ayn Rand is in fact not an anarcho-capitalist thinker, and thus that her purported egoism worship and demonization of alturism are not instrinsic to anarchist thought: just write r/AynRandIsNotAncap if someone claims so!

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If all traces of Ayn Rand suddendly disappeared and everything relating to Ayn Rand fell into oblivion, anarcho-capitalist thinking wouldn't have been changed at all. Ancap and Randism are completely independent.

Here we have the founder of so-called "anarcho-capitalist" market anarchist thought Murray Rothbard vehemently criticize Ayn Rand. Randian thought isn't intrinsic to anarcho-capitalist thought.

The Wikipedia article "Objectivism [though more accurately called 'Randianism' in the context] and libertarianism" outlines some of the stark differences between anarcho-capitalism and Randianism

Many prominent contributors in the Mises Institute, the leading anarcho-capitalist think-tank, are religious, contrary to Objectivist teachings, and are not fixated on exalting selfishness and demonizing alturism. Randian thought isn't representative of anarchist thought.

Here we can see in Ayn Rand's own words how she denounces anarchy using arguments so generic that they could just as well have been made by Joseph Stalin. Ayn Rand demonized altruism harshly, yet here she is arguing for submissive submission to a monopolistic expropriating property "protector".

Yaron Brook is a leading Randian (as opposed to Objectivist) thinker and he, like Ayn Rand, deploys the most annoying and dumb arguments against anarchy. This shows how childishly dead-set Randians, like Ayn Rand, are to oppose anarchy.

Here we have Randians (as opposed to Objectivists) criticize the founder of so-called "Anarcho-capitalist" market anarchist thought. Anarcho-capitalists and Randians are at odds with each other; the philosophies do differ starkly.

Randians (as opposed to Objectivists), in spite of ostensibly opposing collectivism, easily fall for it due to their State worship. "Israel has a moral right to its life" is an EXTREMELY weird statement for supposed methodological individualists to claim: States are not living organisms, nor real.

Randians praise selfishness and vehemently denounce alturism, yet very oddly argue for dogmatic submission to monopolistic expropriating property protectors. One would think that they would support anarchy, yet instead argue for selfless civic duty in the name of "society".

As the well-versed Objectivist Liquidzulu points out, Objectivism is currently split into two branches: "closed system" and "open system". The latter argue that Objectivism is a philosophy with an essence independent of Ayn Rand, whereas the former argue Objectivism is effectively Ayn Rand-thought.