>>Ayn Rand had already made her point and the speech just belabored the point...
Ruined the book. It had been said that revolutionaries are closet dictators: who but a dictator can expect to get away with that sort of drone. I'm assuming that this wasn't her point. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
