It is amazing how so much of what Ayn wrote we are living today. Almost word for word.
She had a good perspective, growing up in early Soviet Russia......
FROM WIKI:
She was twelve at the time of the February Revolution of 1917, during which she favored Alexander Kerensky over Tsar Nicholas II.
The subsequent October Revolution and the rule of the Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin disrupted the comfortable life the family had previously enjoyed. Her father’s pharmacy business was confiscated and the family displaced.