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Is Atlas Shrugged the most brilliant defense of capitalism in literary history?

>the author, Ayn Rand, personally lived through the economic chaos of the Soviet Union and the desperate poverty it caused, as the communists nationalized businesses and expropriated private wealth. Her father was a pharmacist, and Rand was in the shop when soldiers arrived to close the business and seize the property, depriving the family of work, property, and income. In the years before she left, she lived through the tyranny of statism, as the communists used every means to expand their power

>Her characters illustrate the virtues of rationality, production, and trade—and the vices of parasitism and power. The narrative dramatizes the struggle of producers against parasites and predators, and traces the consequences of that struggle across a whole society

>As the focal point of the plot, the main producers of capital engage in a strike and withdraw their talent, work, and ability to create wealth from a society that dishonors their work even as it expropriates what they have produced

>Rand’s vision continues to inspire people from all walks of life to succeed - and feel no moral guilt by doing so

>> No.10857336
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>statism

>> No.10857339

America was a mistake

>> No.10857341

lol she lived on welfare at the end of her life

>> No.10857347

>>10857341
So? If the inventor of the jackhammer lost his arm, would you decry his invention as a farce?

>> No.10857356

>>10857341
It's okay to take advantage of a system you oppose the existence of given that it will exist regardless.

>> No.10857444

>>10857347

Falling victim to your own invention is not the same as using an invention you vehemently oppose

>> No.10857457

>>10857341
That's plainly false. She took social security checks (grudgingly) at the end of her life. She was perfectly well off from her book sales.

>> No.10857459

>>10857323
>defenses of capitalism
>brilliant
Pick one

>> No.10857475

>>10857459
Ok liberal

>> No.10857479

>>10857475
Liberals support capitalism you dumb brainlet

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>>10857459
Both.

>> No.10859776

>>10857323
>the main producers of capital engage in a strike
Wait her books are about the workers revolting? wtf i love rand now

>> No.10859852

Yes it would be horrible if private citizens had the right to own their own businesses.

>> No.10859873

Well, the fact that anybody with an understanding of economy or philosophy find it to be uninsightful garbage, there is no literary quality, and most of the people that knew her in real life and had any relation to her thought she was clinically insane and fueled by irrelevant hatred and prejudice, doesn’t really make for a good result

>> No.10859901

>>10857479
In the USA we are retards and liberal means the opposite of what it's supposed to mean

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>>10857323
>stalin killed one hundred trillion people but missed this one