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To me, Rand misinterpreted Adam Smith's "enlightened self-interest" by deleting the "enlightened" aspect of it, probably as a reaction to her experiences in Soviet Russia. She was first exposed to western freedoms at age 20 and somehow came up with the notion that she was the only one who understood the workings of a capitalist nation, when she indeed had no clue. How anyone today can ascribe to her musings as a fully developed political philosophy is beyond me.
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