OK, I have not read any of that for sometime (well actually some years now) but I was trying to avoid any misunderstandings, hurt feelings, the possibility of being banned... :o)

I was completely surprised by your statement on Objectivism. It may be that you can surmise in a roundabout way that capitalism = good (because Rand didn't separate economics from politics), but that is not a summary of Objectivism. It is only one application of Objectivism. Objectivism is a philosophy based on logical validation - that something can be determined by deduction based on prior concepts. It is also the 'belief' that reality exists separate from any concious awareness of it. Or perhaps more accurately, independent of any awareness of it.

Still, I can see the 'logic' of Rand's concepts, but where I disagree mostly with Rand is on her acceptance of the legitimacy of coercion by the government. She expressed that viewpoint on a few occasions and in all cases I disagreed with her.