Ayn Rand

Why do people hate her so much?  I mean, invoking her name in some circles is tanamount to summoning a demonic clone of hitler, or pissing in their face.  Even if you don't like her philosophy, which is very understandable, she was a good writer.  It just weird how hard the dividing line between people on her is.

The main reason people have problems with Rand is simply because she reacts to communism by focusing on individualism to the nth degree. It's such a polar extreme that in many ways it'd be just as bad as communism (or really totalitarianism which is what USSR really was) if it were to ever happen on a large scale.

At least that's what I divined from reading Anthem.