As Rand put it in “Conservativism: An Obituary” (CUI, Chapter 19):

"The world conflict of today is the conflict of the individual against the state, the same conflict that has been fought throughout mankind’s history.

The names change, but the essence—and the results—remain the same, whether it is the individual against feudalism, or against absolute monarchy, or against communism or fascism or Nazism or socialism or the welfare state."

The placement of socialism and fascism at opposite ends of a political spectrum serves a nefarious purpose, according to Rand. It serves to buttress the case that we must avoid “extremism” and choose the sensible middle course of a “mixed economy.”

Ayn Rand began 1962 lecture by quoting passages from the 1920 political platform of the German Nazi Party, including demands for “an end to the power of the financial interests,” “profit sharing in big business,” “a broad extension of care for the aged,”

“improvement of public health” by government, “an all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education,” and so forth. All such welfare-state measures, this platform concluded, “can only proceed from within on the foundation of “The Common Good Before Individual Good.”

Rand then stated what she regarded as the only coherent meaning of “the public interest.”

[T]here is no such thing as ‘the public interest’ except as the sum of the interests of individual men. And the basic, common interest of all men—all rational men—is freedom.

Freedom is first requirement of “the public interest”—not what men do when they are free, but that they are free. All their achievements rest on that foundation—and cannot exist without them. Principles of a free, non-coercive social system are only form of “the public interest.”

This was Ayn Rand in 1962 who red flagged any kind of Collectivism be it Fascims, Nazism, Communism, Socialism et all. The idea behind everyting is collective good over Individual rights. The root cause i.e. Marxism which is spread far & wide.

Marxist virus is the root cause of the problem & redistribution of Income, Taxes & Welfare State the symptoms of the disease. You can finish Communist politically but ideology of Marx still haunts both left & right. Ayn Rand was prophetic warning America about perils of it.

And marxist virus hollows out a society from inside, socially, economically & culturally. Once the Marxist Bug bites a person that person looses the touch with all his history, civilization. Thus collectivism is death knell for civilization.

And we have explained about the nuances & disastrous effects of Collectvism in our book #TheNewGlobalOrder as well !