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    America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business
    America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business
    America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business
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    America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business

    By Ayn Rand

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    America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business was a lecture delivered by Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall Forum, Boston, on December 17, 1961, and at Columbia University on February 15, 1962. Rand argues that “every ugly, brutal aspect of injustice toward racial or religious minorities is being practiced towards businessmen” under America’s antitrust laws. Rand catalogues the injustices of antitrust, decries the scapegoating of businessmen, analyzes particular cases, rejects antitrust laws as non-objective and calls for their ultimate repeal.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPapamoa Press
    Release dateDec 1, 2018
    ISBN9781789124200
    America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business
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    Ayn Rand

    Ayn Rand (1905–1982) wrote the bestselling novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) and founded the philosophy known as objectivism. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Rand taught herself to read at the age of six and soon resolved to become a professional writer. In 1926, she left Communist Russia to pursue a screenwriting career in Hollywood, and she published her first novel ten years later. With her next book, the dystopian novella Anthem (1938), she introduced the theme that she would devote the rest of her life to pursuing: the inevitable triumph of the individual over the collective. 

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      AMERICA’S PERSECUTED MINORITY: BIG BUSINESS

      BY

      AYN RAND

      AMERICA’S PERSECUTED MINORITY: BIG BUSINESS

      LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. I shall ask you to consider the following questions. If a small group of men were always regarded as guilty, in any clash with any other group, regardless of the issues or circumstances involved, would you call it persecution? If this group were always made to pay for the sins, errors or failures of any other group, would you call that persecution? If this group had to live under a silent reign of terror, under special laws, from which all other people were immune, laws which the accused could not grasp or define in advance and which the accuser could interpret in any way he pleased—would you call that persecution? If this group were penalized, not for its faults, but for its virtues, not for its incompetence, but for its ability, not for its failures, but for its achievements, and the greater the achievement, the greater the penalty—would you call that persecution?

      If your answer is yes—then ask yourself what sort of monstrous injustice you are condoning, supporting or perpetrating. That group is the American businessmen.

      The defense of minority rights is acclaimed today, virtually by everyone, as a moral principle of a high order. But this principle, which forbids discrimination, is applied by most of the liberal intellectuals in a discriminatory

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