[libstripper]

The sad thing about Rand was that, in her private life, she ended up violating most of her moat important teachings. Indeed, after reading and thoroughly enjoying Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead, and We the Living, I made the huge mistake of reading This is Ayn Rand. TIAY was a total sycophantic suck-up that was almost a bad as some of the similar efforts by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. to canonize the Kennedys. Indeed, after properly criticizing Stalin, she went on to ape him by creating her own cult of the personality.

[Reily]

There’s an old saying; “You become what you hate if you hate it enough!”

It applies to Ayn Rand and her group! I think the called themselves jokingly - “The Collective”.

And that’s what they become with the Brandens, latter Leonard Pekoff being the ideological enforcers.