Return of the primitive : the anti-industrial revolution / Ayn Rand ; edited and with an introduction and additional articles by Peter Schwartz.

"Original edition published as The New Left : the anti-industrial revolution by Signet in 1971. "Racism" appeared in ... The virtue of selfishness ... published by Signet in 1964 ..."-- T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Peter Schwartz -- The Schools. The Cashing-In: The Student "Rebellion" The Chickens' Homecoming. The Comprachicos -- The Culture. Apollo and Dionysus. The "Inexplicable Personal Alchemy" The Age of Envy -- The Politics. The Left: Old and New. From a Symposium. "Political" Crimes. Racism. Global Balkanization. Gender Tribalism / Peter Schwartz -- The Anti-Industrial Revolution. The Philosophy of Privation / Peter Schwartz. Multicultural Nihilism / Peter Schwartz. The Anti-Industrial Revolution.

The late 1960s saw the first widespread expression, in overt form, of the creed of anti-industrialism in America. The original edition of this book was published as a response - as an analysis and refutation of that deadly phenomenon. Among noted thinkers of the day, Ayn Rand alone stood firm against the tide of Kantian nihilism and in support of reason, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism - the philosophic ideals that are the foundation of American achievement and progress.

Three decades later, despite a seemingly different sociopolitical climate, the intellectual essence of the "New Left" endures. Its continued influence - manifested in such ideologies as environmentalism and multiculturalism - renders Rand's observations and warnings as relevant, and as urgently needed, as when they were first written.

In this newly revised and expanded volume, Peter Schwartz supplements Rand's work by shedding new light on the dangerous legacy of the New Left - a legacy that seeks to return mankind to the era of primitivism.