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The Book Club: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand With Eric Daniels

The Book Club

CHAPTER

I'm Not Primarily an Advocate of Capitalism, but of Egoism

In the 19 sixties, she had an essay where she wrote a famous phrase. She said, i'm not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism. Her whole philosophy ultimately relies on that idea of the mind in human existence. What is the role of the mind? It is the essential. You have to think in order to survive. And you have to use your mind and apply it without any illusions or group think. That all is on the individual himself and reality.

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