Hal Horvath ("mostly from Austin, TX") opines that "A more sophisticated view of A. Rosenbaum (Rand) is that she wrote about artistic freedom and later freedom to innovate in contrast to totalitarian states (where she originated)... That she gradually went wacko is just a lesson to us all about overextending and overgeneralizing ideas. As with religion, many things are said in her name, under color of her, that are near 180 degrees opposite of what she believed."
All these people coming from fascist regimes (Hayek, Rand, etc.) came with the fascist mindset of believing in the providential man (the personality cult). The one who works more, or better than the rest, and thus rises above (Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, and countless lesser imitators followed that justification).
Far from being freed from totalitarianism, those thinkers were born from it. The opposition was never between Stalin and Hitler, or Mussolini, but between them, and the French republic (France being where these trains of thought left the station, generations before.)
The opposition between Liberty and Equality is resolved by Fraternity. No subtlety Hayek, Rand, Neoconservatives, Neofascists, greedsters and plutophiles can get.
PA
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