Obscure Ayn Rand Novel To Be Released

[Mudhammam]

I'm not overly-familiar with her philosophy, either. I've just absorbed what other people have said about her works to get an impression.

But from what I've gathered, she attempts to show that the individual should never be held back, no matter what the cost. It seems she tries to say that if you have the skills and ability to accomplish something, how it affects others should not come into consideration. She advocates that the goals of the individual trump that of society.

I don't see how that is all that different from:

a socialist regime(Stalin?)