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Marxism is all about Lies. They hate Rand’s thinking which is summed up in this section of the article, here:

“There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire,” Rand wrote in 1969, “some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days—the conviction that ideas matter.”

The nature of this conviction? “That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one’s mind matters. And the radiance of that certainty, in the process of growing up, is the best aspect of youth.”

In other words-—the individual matters. Marxists are collectivists and crush individuals and control all the ideas allowed—for the “greater” good and “they” decide whose “mind” is more important than others, without competition and merit based societies. The oligarchy in a Marxist State is god—and decide everything for everyone.

Christianity was loathed by Rand—she failed to realize (because she never gave birth) to how necessary “selflessness” is for the family unit-— a mother/father/child-—for the flourishing of the next generation.

You will not have emotionally strong human beings without parents who sacrifice for their children. Selfishness was important to Rand-—Do your own thing without sacrificing your ambitions for others. Human beings-—in a civilized culture-—need self-sacrifice for family life and civil societies, but particularly for the next generation.

Rand’s idea of “moral” behavior could be summed up by her own actions of constantly cheating on her husband-—I think with his best friend. As Dostoevsky stated (and his mind was superior to Rand’s-—”Without God, everything is permissible.” No Universal Truth will lead to chaos or totalitarianism and using human beings as a means to an end—never allowed in Christian Ethics.

If one is capable of following Christian Ethics-—they will be extremely happy-—it is what happened to many atheists—after they converted-—like CS Lewis-—whom she loathed. Without God, there is no Justice and no Hope on earth-—it is a miserable place. With God-—there is Hope and Love.