I've recently finished Ayn Rand's first novel: We the living.
A peculiar love story of a highly resoulute individualist Kira, and her search for romance and freedom. But the romantic conflicts of Kira is a mere cover-up of Rand's expression of communism. In 1925 Soviet Russia, all the once considered bourgeoise struggle to make a living in the quickly transforming proletariat communism. Ayn Rand not only takes us into the historical horror of lennon's administration, but renders the reader with some kind of sympathy towards humanity: what wouldn't we do for food?
It's the center of the battle between food and ideology; life verses after-life in a sesnse. The bourgeoise fight for are individual freedom to privacy and work. The proletariats fight for equality and duty. Although the book is blindingly biased against communism, I couldn't agree with her more. To find out what I'm saying, read the book! it's Reading week!!
what I found most fascinating was how she title the book: We the Living.
In communism, 'we' is equivalent to life it self. A life not dedicated to the society is not a life pursuing at all. Rand just shows us how deleterious that ideology can be.
I don't want to bash communism too much here, but a socity of fallen tweeks and broken bones is a dead society, a dead culture. Picasso once said, that 'computer is useless, they can only give answers'. Perhaps computer is not totally useless, but it's inability to create and ask questions is why it's rendered as a mere tool, not an entity of it self. Communism makes computers out of people. We the living is an ironic title, of a dying Soviet Union right from its birth.
anyways, have a great reading week! if you don't have a book to read!
definitely check out ayn rand's We the Living!
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