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Originally Posted by icenine

I do not know anything really about Rand, but I sort of assumed she was anti-communist since all of these people like Paul Ryan love her.....and in Madmen (the tv show) the CEO of the advertising firm all the characters work in has Atlas Shrugged in his office.

She said she was anti-communist, but nothing she did would suggest that's true. For example the link above cites her newsletter where she railed against Reagan and supported labor -- labor in that context means working with the hands.

The communist movement is a labor movement. Since the US is generally a capitalist nation she could not help implement communism by saying that's what she was doing. Instead she had to be subversive.

Remember that the Communist manifesto provides a basic roadmap to communism.

1) Create a great divide between the haves and have nots.
2) Make them fight each other
3) Communism steps in to save the day

Ayn Rand was instrumental in step 1). The neocons, with their roots in the radical left, are working on step 2).

There is some debate as to whether step 3) is done. It depends on whether one considers the NYC/DC i.e. corporate/government relationship, a master over wealth allocation in the nation. I think they are and that we are close enough to being communists to call it that. The neocons would take it further.