Well then Rand is a tiresome elitist. Atlas Shrugged is all about imagining that the communist psychosis of Russia occurred in the USA. While the policies of the State Planning Commission described by Rand are more measured than Stalin's policy of the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, there is a similarity in the failure to understand how private enterprise requires profit incentive to generate jobs and growth. Her underlying point is that planned economies don't work, especially when the planners are biased against the most productive and talented people.giselle wrote:Its such a tiresome and elitist argument that the failure to understand the economic basis of society is responsible for supposed misconceptions about the role of business. This is just a cute way to assume the high ground and put all others on the defensive.
I suspect Giselle that your concern may be more that Rand's views on statist opposition to the private sector provide effective Republican propaganda, which is why Democrats tirelessly portray her as a crackpot.