"She was young in Russia when the revolution hit, so her whole identity was based on hating communism."
Oh, okay, yeah. I hadn't made that connection, but that does make her whole thesis make more sense, emotionally, if not practically, politically, or empirically.
"All social relationships are transactional, and anyone weak or needy is a vile parasite." So, basically, proto-Thatcherism. (No prize, I'm sure, for guessing Thatcher was a rand fan.) >