You might be blaming Rand, but it is painfully obvious she never claimed that "helping fellow man" led to Stalin. You blamed her, but did not read the follow up commentary like The New Left, apparently. And while she might have loathed the Bible Thumpers, no doubt if alive today she'd prefer their homeschooling efforts (well--if still legal. In Cally it is not, by decree now due to the activist courts) over the trainwreck of public SKOOL's historical revisionism and PC whining---rife in the NEAs methodology of producing more dolts who admire government prowess. Promise.

She said, as has Micky Kaus, BTW--that altruism was a lousy was to conduct policy and politics and economics since there is no demarcation line of where to leave off from the public versus the private. The failure to understand this DID give us Stalin in the East, but the Welfare State in the West. That's not a good thing either. It just keeps pols in power on the backs of perpetual cossetted poverty.