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Even better, read We the Living. Rand is at her best as a critic of Soviet Communism, the system under which she came of age. Despite her stated love for the
by sevensor 10y ago
Even better, read We the Living. Rand is at her best as a critic of Soviet Communism, the system under which she came of age. Despite her stated love for the United States and its economic system, I don't think she ever really understood it at the level she understood Soviet Communism. This is why her novels set in the U.S. don't really feel like any version of the U.S. you know of, historical or current. It's not so much the real United States as it is an idealized not-the-Soviet-Union. Maybe it's a place you want to live, and maybe it's not.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Rand is at her best as a critic of Soviet Communism Huh. The idea of Rand as kind of a weird mirror image of Marx, much better as a critic of a particular system than a prescriber of solutions (though, even with his problems in this regard, Marx is much better than Rand here), is interesting.