Return of the primitive
Subtitle: the anti-industrial revolution
By: Ayn Rand ; edited and with an introduction and additional articles by Peter Schwartz.
Contributors: Schwartz, Peter, 1949-; Rand, Ayn.
Edition: New expanded ed. of The New Left : the anti-industrial revolution.
Publisher: Meridian
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: New Left -- United States.; Technology and civilization.
Description: The late 1960s saw the first widespread expression, in overt form, of the creed of anti-industrialism in America. The original edition of this book was published as a response - as an analysis and refutation of that deadly phenomenon. Among noted thinkers of the day, Ayn Rand alone stood firm against the tide of Kantian nihilism and in support of reason, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism - the philosophic ideals that are the foundation of American achievement and progress.

Three decades later, despite a seemingly different sociopolitical climate, the intellectual essence of the "New Left" endures. Its continued influence - manifested in such ideologies as environmentalism and multiculturalism - renders Rand's observations and warnings as relevant, and as urgently needed, as when they were first written.

In this newly revised and expanded volume, Peter Schwartz supplements Rand's work by shedding new light on the dangerous legacy of the New Left - a legacy that seeks to return mankind to the era of primitivism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Comprises, in addition to three articles by Peter Schwartz, the text of the original ed. of The New Left, supplemented by two Ayn Rand articles, "Racism" and "Global Balkanization" previously published elsewhere. Cf. p. ix.