by Ayn Rand

 Utopia: Political or social perfection  Dystopia: A society characterized by human misery: oppression, disease, and overcrowding

 the belief that the moral purpose for one’s life is the pursuit of one’s own happiness; full respect for individual’s rights  Id: instinct (the instinctual, pleasure seeking part of the mind  Superego: moral (the part of the mind that represses the id’s impulses)  Ego: realistic (the part of the mind that controls but does not repress the id’s impulses)  Constitutes the essential identity of a human being. The “I” or self of any person.

 One’s identity as a human comes from the membership of one or more groups.  The primary recipient of one’s labor should be this group rather than yourself.

 Government owns major means of production  Can still have small businesses  Marxist theory, transitional phase between capitalism and communism

 Everything is run by the government  No small businesses  No competition  The idea that everyone brings everyone up  There has never been a pure communist society except for nuns/monestaries

 Private ownership  More freedoms & competition

1. To protect from outside invasion 2. To protect from inside invasion 3. To protect the people from the government