Dictatorship and Scapegoats – Ayn Rand on Totalitarian Power Mechanisms

„Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.“

Ayn RandAyn Rand analyzes how dictatorships use minority groups as scapegoats to justify their claims to power—a pattern across systems.
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Ayn Rand was a Russian-American philosopher and writer known for her philosophy of Objectivism.

Ayn Rand's analysis of the dictatorial strategy of instrumentalizing minority groups as scapegoats to legitimize power. A critical concept for recognizing totalitarian patterns.


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Ayn Rand (1905–1982) was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher best known for her novels "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead." She developed the philosophy of Objectivism, which emphasizes reason, individualism, and capitalism as moral ideals.

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