Ayn Rand’s famous quote about the difference between Communism and Socialism didn’t go anywhere nearly far enough to be accurate. I tend to doubt she ever truly understood that she was never on the side of the angels. Her flawed ideology, as with that of her successors, has been completely undermined by the opportunity to see some of the consequences of its concepts put into practice, and illustrates how secular reason inevitably fails due to its intrinsic inability to take the supernatural into account.
