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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comINDIVIDUALISTS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! 65indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of humannature.” In her mature work Rand would attack any distinction betweeneconomic and social virtues, insisting that the same code of moralitymust apply to both. But in her first extended discussion of philosophyshe was content to talk about capitalism’s efficiencies and the benefits offreedom without integrating both into a new moral system. 70Rand closed her discussion of capitalism with a twist of her owndevising. She asserted that for all the glories of capitalism she had sung,“we have never had a pure capitalist system.” Collectivist elements,such as Monopoly Capitalists and the State, had conspired againstcapitalism from the beginning. These problems were not the fault ofcapitalism, but rather the result of encouraging collectivism. We muststop blaming capitalism, she wrote: “[I]t is time to say that ours is thenoblest, cleanest and most idealistic system of all. We, its defenders,are the true Liberals and Humanitarians.” Her readers faced a choice,and they must draw together in common action. They would find andrecognize each other by “a single, simple badge of distinction,” theirdevotion to freedom and liberty. She blared, “INDIVIDUALISTS OFTHE WORLD, UNITE!” 71 Rand dispatched the final product to Pollockwith an enthusiastic note. She was open to changes and amendmentsbut hoped the “Manifesto” would be eventually published or madepublic, along with the signatures of the committee they would gather.“Let us be the signers of the new Declaration of Independence,” shewrote hopefully. 72Rand’s individualist “Manifesto” was the culmination of a series ofshifts that had transformed her thinking since the publication of We theLiving in 1935. Most obvious was her overt and enthusiastic embrace ofpolitics. In this she was returning to an early interest, reprising the fascinationwith revolution and her father’s political ideas that had markedher years in Russia. But American politics both challenged and reinforcedher strongly held beliefs about the world. Working on the Willkiecampaign helped shake Rand out of her reflexive elitism. She saw nowthat democracy might be more hospitable to capitalism than she hadever assumed. And she had come to believe that individualism was afundamentally American value, one that had merely been disguised bycollectivist propaganda. It was simply a question of getting the rightideas out to a broad audience.