> In the same way that people use Stalin's policies to discredit Marx No, Ayn Rand and Karl Marx are not remotely comparable. Not until you can point to dozen

> In the same way that people use Stalin's policies to discredit Marx No, Ayn Rand and Karl Marx are not remotely comparable. Not until you can point to dozens of countries that tried to put Rand's principles into action, and show how they failed. Can you? Saying "true communism has never been tried" is to ignore what happened each time. "We'll do better next time" doesn't persuade unless you have a detailed understanding of how someone like Stalin or Pol Pot comes to power, and some plan more detailed than "we won't do it that way."