ABSTRACT
As a novelist and philosopher, Ayn Rand developed a defense of capital based on strong moral convictions. In doing so, she approached the task in a manner that was rather different from her contemporaries in the economics profession. Her unique style helped create a sort of radical political movement to defend capitalism against its enemies. According to Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Rand was very much a public philosopher and the charismatic leader of a kind of people's movement in philosophy. In general, she seems committed to the view that her moral philosophy is necessary in order to overcome the dominant ethics of mankind's history were variants of the altruist-collectivist doctrine which subordinated the individual to some higher authority, either mystical or social. In her view the statists want us to believe that we only have a choice between fascism, which is a system of nominal private property and government controls, and socialism or communism.
