Where does Ayn Rand sit on the political compass?
Objectivist novelist
Ayn Rand is placed at +9.0 economically (right) and -6.5 socially (libertarian). That coordinate falls in the Anarcho-Capitalism cell.
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Portrait: Photo portrait credited to "Talbot" (though not on original dust jacket). Published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company ., Public domain. Source.
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Closest ideology
Anarcho-Capitalism Anarcho-capitalism argues that even police, courts, and defence should be private services bought on a market. It occupies the far economic right and the most libertarian row of the map.
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Furthest on this map: Mao Zedong.
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