Return of the Primitive

The Anti-Industrial Revolution

by Ayn Rand; Peter Schwartz

The bulk of this volume was originally published as "The New Left", with the same subtitle, in 1971, as one in a collection of essays by the playwright, novelist, and philosopher. In this edition, the editor and chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute has rearranged the selection and order of the essays, inserting his own writings on such late-20th-century concerns as feminism, environmentalism, and multiculturalism.

Available editions of Return of the Primitive

	9780452011847, Paperback, Penguin Group USA, 1999 $5.24 (Good) Other copies of 9780452011847

Publisher Notes

In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced "flower-power" and psychedelic "consciousness-expansion," that lionized Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro and launched the Black Panthers and the Theater of the Absurd. In Return Of The Primitive (originally published in 1971 as The New Left), Ayn Rand, bestselling novelist and originator of the theory of Objectivism, identified the intellectual roots of this movement. She urged people to repudiate its mindless nihilism and to uphold, instead, a philosophy of reason, individualism, capitalism, and technological progress. Editor Peter Schwartz, in this new, expanded version of The New Left, has reorganized Rand's essays and added some of his own in order to underscore the continuing relevance of her analysis of that period. He examines such current ideologies as environmentalism and multiculturalism and argues that the same primitive, tribalist, "anti-industrial" mentality which animated the New Left a generation ago is shaping society today.

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