This play was written in the early 1960s; Justin Raimondo wrote his commentary for the Rothbard-Rockwell Report. Introduction by Justin Raimondo “Mozart Was a Red” is, to my knowledge, Murray N. Rothbard’s one and only play. It is a form unusual for him, but one well suited to its subject: the cult that grew up around the novelist Ayn Rand and flourished in the 60s and early 70s. For the principal figures of Rand’s short-lived “Objectivist” movement were indeed like characters out of some theatrical farce. With her flowing cape, intense eyes, and long cigarette holder, Rand … Continue reading An Evening in Ayn Rand’s Livingroom