Neither Caudillo nor Party: Republic

Illustration representing the contrast between communism, concentrated political power, and republican institutional counterweights.

Ayn Rand was twelve years old when the Bolshevik Revolution arrived in Petrograd. She watched the State confiscate her family home and her father’s business, a pharmacy he had built through his own work and effort. There was no compensation, no due process, no possibility of appeal. The Soviet Constitution of 1918 had stated it with […]