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Entry: The Day I Met Ayn Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_day_i_met_ayn#19999 Post contents: As Justine hinted, Rand's most important book for understanding her and her philosophy was WE THE LIVING. Taking place in St. Petersburg/Leningrad where Ayn herself was born, the novel develops all her major themes out of her and her family's experiences being of upper-middle class business proprietors amidst an anti-capitalist revolution. The novel serves as the closest thing to her autobiography. An Italian movie based on this novel was made decades ago. Objectivism is nothing less than right-wing Marxism. It accepts Dialectical Materialism; but instead of declaring the proletariat as the end-time beneficiary pace Marx, it states that the heroic super bourgeoisie will be the recipient of the final synthesis. Hegel would understand that she just chose a different side. Sent at: 2008 05 16