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Rand on Totalitarian Motives, by Bryan Caplan (Econlog)

Ayn Rand's verdict on totalitarian motives* is remarkably similar to mine.
From Galt's Speech:

> [I]f the ravages wrought by their acts have not made them question their
doctrines, if they profess to be moved by love, yet are not deterred by piles
of human corpses, it is because the truth about their souls is worse than the
obscene excuse you have allowed them, the excuse that the end justifies the
means and that the horrors they practice are means to nobler ends. The truth
is that those horrors are their ends.

It's tempting to dismiss this as Randian hyperbole. But consider: As a young
Russian intellectual growing up during the Russian Revolution, Rand had a lot
of first-hand experience with sanguinary Russian radicals. She knew how they
thought. Indeed, the first edition of _We The Living_ shows that Rand
actually fell under their influence. When the Communist Andrei says, "I know
what you're going to say. You're going to say, as so many of our enemies do,
that you admire our ideals, but loathe our methods," the Randian Kira
responds: "I loathe your ideals. I admire your methods." ...

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