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Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Ayn Rand was in Russia when the horrid Bolshevik Revolution began.  She left Russia in 1926 and came to America, a country she greatly respected and adopted as her own.  Rand, besides possessing esteemed literary skill, was a champion for individualism over collectivism, pure capitalism, and Man's ascent from barbarism.

 

The Ayn Rand Institute

Ayn Rand’s testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee on October 20, 1947

 

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List of Books

 

Atlas Shrugged

 

The Romantic Manifesto

 

The Fountainhead

 

We The Living

 

Anthem

 

The Virtue of Selfishness

 

The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

 

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

 

Philosophy: Who Needs It

 

 

 

Without machines and technology, the task of mere survival is a terrible, mind-and-body-wrecking ordeal. In “nature,” the struggle for food, clothing and shelter consumes all of a man’s energy and spirit; it is a losing struggle — the winner is any flood, earthquake or swarm of locusts. (Consider the 500,000 bodies left in the wake of a single flood in Pakistan; they had been men who lived without technology.) To work only for bare necessities is a luxury that mankind cannot afford.

 

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from 

the achievement of one's values.

 

 

 

 

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