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Doubtful. I find that most people who say that they have read Ayn Rand’s books a) haven’t -or- b) don’t understand them. They associate her with anarchy and libertarianism, both of which she despised. They tend to apply her theories of the individual, ironically enough, to the collective in justifying things like public religion/the blending of religion and politics as well as the use of force, all of which she equally despised.  Most people also don’t really consider her writing in HER context as someone who came of age and was educated in the early days of the Soviet Union. It is not at all ironic, then, that she has become a favorite of many neoconservatives who, themselves, are born of a political-philosophical tradition that traces itself back directly to a group of reformed Communists and fellow travelers. 

Egoism?  Sure, it sounds good to be rational and do what is in your self-interest, until the peasants revolt and eliminate the classes of people who, by virtue of their elevated station in life (whether by birth or their own creation is, in very anti-Randian terms, irrelevant), have the ability to live the “enlightened” life of an egoist. But then, what would someone who lived through the birth of the Soviet Union know of such things....