Another You Tube video (hat-tip Simone Webb), this time of a whole film 'Atlas Shrugged'. I love the books of the Author Ayn Rand, read her stuff voraciously and have a picture of her in my office in the House of Commons.
Rand was a Jewish-Russian emigre (also an atheist), who went to the United States and became one of the foremost writers on individualism, and capitalism in the twentieth century. Some of her books are said to have sold more copies than the bible.
Her most famous are We the Living (about the failures of communism), The Fountainhead (about an architect who refuses to accept mushy consensus), and Atlas Shrugged, about industrialists who refuse to accept socialism and build their own capitalist utopia.
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