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Atlas Shrugged - The Strike for the One That Sticked
Rand's book would be the vessel for her own distinct ideological offering, objectivism. Objectivism is sold in the form of a mystery set in a dustopian america where business is crippled by increasing regulation. It's what happens when capitalism isn't lese fair, which rand makes clear is catastrophic. Rand wants to present a morality where selfishness is a virtue and rationality is the defining characteristic of human kind. Capitalism is the best socio political syst that's the message in atlas shrugged.