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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comCHAPTER NINEIt Usually Begins with Ayn Rand$the schisms of 1968 were a disaster for Rand but a boon formany of her readers. Afterward she retreated into private life,emerging only once every year to address the Ford Hall Forum, anevent that became known as the “Objectivist Easter.” But the ideologicalenergy amassed by Rand and her followers was too strong to disappearovernight, as had NBI. The break even had an invigorating effect on thespread of Objectivism, broadly considered, because the shuttering ofNBI coincided with a new wave of right-wing activity on campus. Asyoung conservatives began to mobilize against an increasingly radicalNew Left, Rand’s ideas became an important source of inspiration andguidance. And now, without the dictats of NBI, there was ample roomfor interpretation. No longer “students of Objectivism,” those who likedRand were free to call themselves Objectivists or libertarians. Theycould follow the logic of their antistatism all the way to the newly popularposition of anarchism or, with a nod to Rand, anarcho- capitalism. 1Rand’s works were too potent and too popular to be confined or controlled,even by their creator.Once unleashed, Rand’s ideas helped power an ideological explosionon the right that culminated in an independent libertarian movement.These new libertarians distinguished themselves proudly from traditionalconservatives, who in turn greeted the movement with dismay.At times, libertarians talking fervently about revolution seemed to havemore in common with the left than the right. For a brief moment iteven seemed that libertarianism or anarchism might become the latestaddition to the New Left’s rainbow of ideologies. 2 But since Rand had sodeeply imprinted capitalism upon the face of the libertarian subculture,this latent potential never fully developed. Instead, libertariansremained fierce defenders of the free market and apologists for all the247