Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian born American author. She's been quite influential in the american lolbertarian movement and is kind of a Patron Saint for many rightoids. And is not only limited to the US, I've seen many Ayn Rand books in sale in Brazilian Bookstores, they have translations of all of her works from Atlas Shrugged to her essays like “The Virtue of Selfishness”.
Rand was never considered a good writer, dramacels, what do you guys think of this lady?
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Atlas Shrugged is literally just a dystopian novel where the State decides to nationalize anything that makes money because they are inept. The few industries that aren't nationalized are ran by people adjacent to the state or have relatives within the state.
The state is effectively just mediocrity incarnate and a stand-in for r-slur socialists. John Galt and others are basically ambitious people who keep getting fricked over by the state every time they try to create anything.
It's not great, but it's a neat dystopia because the state is obviously dying, but they still have enough of a monopoly on force and control of the financial system to keep that status quo going.
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