Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Алиса Розенбаум
Born	Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum February 2, 1905 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	March 6, 1982 New York City, New York, United States
Nationality	Russian
Political orientation	Anarcho-capitalism Liberalism White supremacy Right-libertarianism Imperialism

Alice O'Connor (February 2, 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known as Ayn Rand, was a far-right political theorist who believed that the bourgeoisie should rule without restrictions. She praised the genocide and colonization of indigenous peoples in North America.

Early life

Rand's father owned a pharmacy in Petrograd, which was nationalized after the Russian Revolution. She became an atheist as a teenager studied history at the University of Petrograd, where she read Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Schiller. She admired Nietzsche's concept of an Übermensch (superhuman). After studying screenwriting for a year at the State Institute for Cinema Arts, she moved to the United States in 1926 and became a U.S. citizen in 1931.

Early works

Rand wrote her first novel, The Fountainhead, in 1943, which is about a genius architect who blows up a housing complex that he designed after another architect made changes to its design. In 1950, Rand moved to New York.

Objectivism

In the 1950s, Rand wrote her most famous novel, Atlas Shrugged. She created objectivism, a philosophy that attempted to encompass economics, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and politics. She believed that individuals must exist for their own sake and pursue their own self-interest.

Political views

Rand supported laissez-faire capitalism and believed that the state should be completely separate from the economy. She generally sympathized with Austrian economists such as Hayek and Mises but criticized their utilitarianism, which she believed could be used to defend socialism.