Obscure Ayn Rand Novel To Be Released

[Faith No More]

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?)

Living in a socialist regime means living for the state. Every action should be evaluated as to how it affects the state, not the individual. She went the opposite direction and promoted that every action should evaluated as to how it affects the individual.