I belive Ayn was a product of her environment. She learned to fight socialism on the same brutal terms that it sought to subjugate her.
And the comment. "I've described her worldview as inverted Marxism — a conception of politics as a fundamental struggle between a producer class and a parasite class," is just about exactly right.
I could not get through the turgid and soulless 'Atlas Shrugged' novel, and the movie was better only because it only took 2 hours to get to the finish (by which time I was snoring, along with half of the other 8 people still in the theatre). If Ayn Rand is serious philosophy, then we badly need some serious religion.
We also haven't had real Capitalism in over a hundred years -
If we had true Capitalism and ran the country as a Republic, we'd be what our Founding Father's created.
How many of you have read Ayn Rand's: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”
And the ONLY way we have a chance of it is to ABOLISH THE IRS - NO Flat Tax - that keeps the monster alive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&list=UUklV9zN4UYcV3DcF5BBak3g&v=QRpWir4eDrs