Opinion of Ayn Rand

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As TheAmazingAtheist once termed her in one of his books; "The Biggest c**nt in the Universe."

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options 1 and 2.   she made a legitimate critique of collectivism, but what she wanted to replace it with is awful in significant ways.

The problem with Rand wasn't her legitimate critiques of Communism, but her hilariously immature response to it. Her reaction to Communism was to essentially become the cartoonishly evil caricature of capitalism by the Communists of the era. This basically says it better than I could:

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http://buffalobeast.com/caigoy-shrugs-part-iv/

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The first half of that quote seems to be some sort of severely ahistorical satire on Genealogy of Morals.

It serves the analogy, at least. I felt it would rob the latter half of context if I omitted it. The entire series of articles is worth a read, though, if you find yourself with an hour of two free for Rand-bashing.