Somebody's prejudices are showing a bit here - "mocked" and "reviled" are not exactly the two poles of the critical continuum.
Atlas Shrugged certainly is uncomfortable reading for big-government collectivists of every stripe, and a good bit of the howling that greeted it (and still does) emanates from piggies being firmly stuck.
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