Ann Rand... born in Czarist Russia of Jewish parents and lived there until she arrived in New York in early 1926. She was a playright, screenwriter & novelist... with no training in economics or politcal theory. Given her background, it is no wonder she was quite anti-communist.

Per her Wiki account: Although Rand maintained that Objectivism was an integrated philosophical system, philosopher Robert H. Bass has argued that her central ethical ideas are inconsistent and contradictory to her central political ideas.

hmmmm... seems to have more in common with L Ron Hubbard than I knew.