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Readers of Atlas Shrugged are struck by the moral fire of Ayn Rand’s defense of business and capitalism. She does not regard capitalism as an amoral or immoral means to some “common good” — as do most of its alleged defenders — but as a profoundly moral social system.
Ayn Rand provides a nutshell version of Objectivism by describing four. Rand believes that capitalism is the only form of government that is free from violence.
Capitalism, Rand argues, is not today’s system, with its mixture of freedom and government controls, but a social system in which the government is exclusively devoted to the protection of individual rights, including property rights — one in which there exists absolutely no government intervention in the economy.
This book is not a treatise on the economics of capitalism, but a collection of essays on the philosophy of capitalism: the basic truths and principles that make capitalism the only moral and practical social system — the only system consistent with man’s nature and the requirements of his life — the only one that enables each individual to reach his full, glorious potential.
“This book is not a treatise on economics. It is a collection of essays on the moral aspects of capitalism. . . . It is a nonfiction footnote to Atlas Shrugged.”— Ayn Rand, “Introduction,” Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal