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Rand's works need to be read while knowing the context that it was written in. Rand grew up in Russia, and her works were a direct criticism of the failures of
by stale2002 8y ago
Rand's works need to be read while knowing the context that it was written in.
Rand grew up in Russia, and her works were a direct criticism of the failures of the Soviet Union and communism.
For someone who was watching their former country being torn apart, by cartoon villians, it makes sense that she would write about the exact problems that she saw happening. IE, cartoon villians looting the country.
- conanbatt 8y agoBack then people praised the soviet union, they feared their economic prowess. And while even some economists of name woudl say that communism was showing great results she claimed that it would collapse from within. That was a very public bet that she won and should get a lot of credit, to go against the world and standing by her ideas, and she was right.