Why Do People Hate Ayn Rand?

When watching some of my brides favorite shows, there seems to be a general screenwriters’ animosity focused on Ayn Rand.  The novels, particularly The Fountanhead and Atlas Shrugged, coupled with a the author’s experience with communism, speak of responsibility, logic and causality fostering an unbreakable moral code.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote.

It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.


—Rand