Fine. But what I'm saying is that "Atlas Shrugged villains" is not a particularly useful allusion, for a couple reasons. Rand neither invented nor perfected tho

Fine. But what I'm saying is that "Atlas Shrugged villains" is not a particularly useful allusion, for a couple reasons. Rand neither invented nor perfected those villains' depiction in literature. Orwell did it better and sooner. Second, any criticism of the populist kleptocracy currently in power in Venezuela needs to take into account the bourgeois kleptocracy that came before it, or it is criminally incomplete. Randians and Bush fellows in human freedom have keen eyes for the former, and are conveniently blind to the latter.