Ayn Rand's Final Public Lecture: "The Sanction of The Victims"

This is Ayn Rand's final public talk, given in November 1981 to an audience of businessmen at a conference in New Orleans sponsored by the National Committee for Monetary Reform. In this lecture, Rand observes that profit-seeking businessmen, despite conferring huge benefits upon society in the form of higher standards of living, are the "most hated, blamed, denounced men" in the eyes of so-called social humanitarians. This injustice is further compounded when these same victimized businessmen accept their attackers' moral standards and end up guiltily apologizing for their own productive virtues.

Recorded November 21, 1981

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