As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only by the inertia of a void and the momentum of disintegration. A social movement that began with the ponderous, brain-cracking, dialectical constructs of Hegel and Marx, and ends up with a horde of morally unwashed children stamping their foot and shrieking: I want it now is through. β¨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.95, Penguin
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