This essay examines the pitfalls of both unbridled capitalism and socialism and exposes the naiveté inherent within the atheistic libertarianism advocated by the late Ayn Rand.
An excerpt:
"The most common and salient criticism of the socialism that Rand decried is that it is anti-reality. It is against human nature. People simply will not put out their best efforts without being satisfactorily rewarded for it; they will not buy the Marxist commandment of: “From each, according to his abilities; to each, according to his needs.” The validity of such a criticism against any socialistic utopian scheme is irrefutable by empirical observation (and should have been validated by common sense beforehand!).
"However, I believe Rand and her radical libertarian adherents fall into the very same trap that their opponents do: their inability to recognize the political situation that we inherit at birth. That is, we must share the planet with myriad others of our species. Whether we like that or not, that is the reality of our situation."
This is a political treatise that deals with the China issue from a completely new perspective. Disparaging as he may sound, from page to page, toward "the old system" and the Communist Party's various wiles, the author demonstrates his mysteriously
