Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal

How does Ayn Rand use imagery in Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal?

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Examples of Imagery:

"Consider the plunder, the destruction, the starvation, the brutality, the slave-labor camps, the torture chambers, the wholesale slaughter perpetrated by dictatorships. Yet, this is what today's alleged peace-lovers are willing to advocate or tolerate—in the name of love for humanity," (Chapter 2, p. 36).

"Businessmen are the one group that distinguishes capitalism and the American way of life from the totalitarian statism that is swallowing the rest of the world. All the other social groups—workers, farmers, professional men, scientists, soldiers—exist under dictatorships, even though they exist in chains, in terror, in misery, and in progressive self-destruction. But there is no such group as businessmen under a dictatorship. Their place is taken by armed thugs: by bureaucrats and commissars. Businessmen are the symbol of a free society—the symbol of America. If and when they perish, civilization will perish. But if you wish to fight for freedom, you must begin by fighting for its unrewarded, unrecognized, unacknowledged, yet best representatives—the American businessmen," (Chapter 3, p. 62).

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Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal