Ayn Rand's 1957 novel — imagining a world where society's productive geniuses go on strike, withdrawing from an increasingly collectivist economy — which functions as a fictional argument for Rand's Objectivism and capitalism — the most commercially successful philosophical novel.
Creates the fictional argument for laissez-faire capitalism — Atlas Shrugged's 1,000+ pages dramatize Rand's philosophical argument (that rational self-interest and the creative genius of individuals are the foundation of civilization, and that collectivism destroys them) through the character of John Galt and the strike of producers.
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