Rand, who wrote the two absolute best-sellers of our century, The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), was (deservedly) ignored and ridiculed as a philosopher: her fascination with male figures displaying absolute, unswayable determination of their Will, seems to offer the best imaginable confirmation of Sylvya Plath's famous line, "...every woman adores a fascist". However, although it is easy to dismiss the very mention of Rand in a "serious" theoretical article as an obscene extravaganza -artistically, she is of course, worthless- the properly subversive dimension of her ideological procedure is not to be understimated: Rand fits into the line of over-conformist authors who undermine the ruling ideological edifice by their very excessive identification with it.
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