It is amazing how many great quotes I find when I read Ayn Rand’s essays.  Here is yet another one from her essay titled “The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus.”

In this quote she is referring to the fact that most liberals who advocate the redistribution of wealth do not bother to differentiate between the earned and unearned, or to concern themselves with the origin of the wealth.  And especially they have no concern what kind of person is ruined under such a system and what kind thrives.

The grim joke is on them: their alleged “ideals” have paved the way, not toward socialism, but toward fascism.  The collector of their effort is not the helplessly, brainlessly virtuous “little man” of their flat-footed imagination and shopworn fiction, but the worst type of predatory rich, the rich-by-force, the rich-by-political-privilege, the type who has no chance under capitalism, but who is always there to cash in on every collectivist “noble experiment.”

Of course in the process such rich tar the truly productive, who earn their wealth by providing value to their customers, with the same negative image leading to even less concern for the differences.