I appreciate your points above. My contention that she was a hypocrite was what I was defending. I find one litmus of any philosopher's work to be whether the philosopher can and does adhere to it. I have enjoyed Rand's writings, but never found her to be more than a modern Aristotelian with a huge chip on her shoulder against the poor execution of Marx's philosophy. I have no love of the iterations heretofore of Communism, but in Rand, I find little to commend beyond the advocacy of self-determination, and there I prefer Emerson and Thoreau.
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