Ayn Rand, founder of the Objectivist school of philosophy, in a letter to J. Hugh MacLennan, author of Barometer Rising, writes: “Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme—collectivism.”

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Ayn Rand, Letters of, Michael S. Berliner, ed., (New York City: Penguin, 1995), 124, 126.

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