Those of you who may still be "liberals," in the original sense of that word, and who may have abandoned everything except loyalty to reason--now is the time to check your premises. If you do, you will find that the ideal society had once been almost within men's reach. It was the intellectuals who destroyed it--and who committed suicide in the process--but the future belongs to a new type of intellectual, a new radical: the fighter for capitalism.

  -Ayn Rand (The Voice of Reason, 99; pb)