This book is Ayn Rand's call to American youth to reject the tribal, conventional irrationality of the New Left and to grasp the need of a philosophical revolution founded on the supremacy of reason, with individualism, self-interest, science, technology, and progress as its consequences. There is nothing new about the New Left; it is the last gasp of an outworn philosophy. This is the view presented by Ayn Rand in a critical analysis of such superior perceptiveness and originality that it ranks as a landmark in the history of contemporary ideas. The New The Anti-Industrial Revolution is a brilliant addition to the works of one of America's most influential thinkers.
Publisher: New American Library; First Paperback Printing. edition (January 1, 1971)
Year: 1971
Language: English
Pages: 204
CONTENTS
Foreword.vii
1. The Cashing-In: The Student “Rebellion” - 13
2. Apollo and Dionysus... 57
3. The Left: Old andNew...t..i 82
4. From a Symposium.96
5. “Political” Crimes.......i- 99
6. The Chickens’ Homecoming--.(..,. .i.... 102
7. The “Inexplicable Personal Alchemy” ......... 114
8. The Anti-Industrial Revolution ......---127
9. The Comprachicos .'........................ 152