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.