It seems Chambers had quite a bit of sympathy for the "looters".
Since a great many of us dislike much that Miss Rand dislikes, quite as heartily as she does, many incline to take her at her word. It is the more persuasive, in some quarters, because the author deals wholly in the blackest blacks and the whitest whites. In this fiction everything, everybody, is either all good or all bad, without any of those intermediate shades which, in life, complicate reality and perplex the eye that seeks to probe it truly.
Translation - Chambers did not think that socialism was all bad. Further only the ignorant see socialism vs private property rights as a black vs white issue.
According to Chambers a little bit of socialism is OK - right there in the gray area otherwise known as the mushy middle.
Bigot. Read up on Chambers. If Miss Rand had stuck by her "principles" I might be able to take her seriously. At least Whittaker admitted he had been wrong-------something you will never see in print that Ayn did.