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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comINDIVIDUALISTS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 59She was also motivated by a deep sense of crisis, as evidenced by arousing essay she wrote to attract members to the group she hoped toorganize. “To All Fifth Columnists” was an alarmist portrait of Americahoneycombed with collectivists and Soviet agents, teetering on the brinkof dictatorship. Her opening lines asserted, “Totalitarianism has alreadywon a complete victory in many American minds and conquered allof our intellectual life.” Rand assumed that totalitarian dictatorship inAmerica was only a matter of time, and she blamed apathetic and ignorantcitizens, the so-called “fifth column.” Hard-working Americans whoignored politics and simply tried to provide for their families were makinga grave mistake: “The money, home or education you plan to leave[your children] will be worthless or taken away from them. Instead, yourlegacy will be a Totalitarian America, a world of slavery, of starvation, ofconcentration camps and firing squads.” 51The only way to forestall such a tragedy was for the true voice ofAmerica to make itself heard. The American way of life, according toRand, “has always been based on the Rights of Man, upon individualfreedom and upon respect for each individual human personality.”These ideals were being overshadowed by Communist propaganda.Her response: to be heard, “we must be organized.” Here Rand grappledbriefly with the paradox of organizing individualists. Her group wouldbe “an organization against organization . . . to defend us all from thecoming compulsory organization which will swallow all of society.” 52There was no other alternative, she declared, for in the world today therecould be no personal neutrality.Rand’s urgency stemmed directly from her experiences in the NewYork literary world, which convinced her that Communists were alsoa powerful force within American political life. In truth, the Party hadbeen hemorrhaging members for years, since rumors of the 1936 Stalinistpurges reached New York. The Soviet fever broke in 1939, with the revelationof the Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact. American Communistswere caught flat-footed by the sudden reversal of policy. They hadalways loudly boasted of their antifascist credentials, a position thatwas particularly popular among American leftists. Now Communistleaders could offer no convincing reason for the new alliance. Neverlarge to begin with, Party membership plummeted. Friendly intellectualsand liberal fellow travelers began distancing themselves from the