Any Rand was a Russian expat Jew whose family fled the Bolsheviks. She wanted to create a kind of anti-Marxism to inoculate America and succeeded I think to a v

Any Rand was a Russian expat Jew whose family fled the Bolsheviks. She wanted to create a kind of anti-Marxism to inoculate America and succeeded I think to a very limited extent. In the end I often compare her to Marx. Both were great critics but their work breaks down when you get to the “and then what” part. And then… magic happens and utopia! You just need the enough unicorns. Followers of these two tend to criticize a lot. Marxists can pen deep critiques of capitalism and Randians of socialism. But they start sounding magical when it comes to solutions. I’ve come to be skeptical of criticism and its value. Doing things is way harder than criticizing them.