"What we need are real intellectuals, that is, thinkers. But we cannot 'convert' thinkers or 'regain their devotion.' We need them to convert us—that is, to teach businessmen and conservatives the proper kind of philosophy. Such thinkers still exist somewhere and we need them desperately. No, they are not 'fainthearts' as you say in your letter. And they have not given up. They have been choked off, stopped, prevented from functioning publicly through the fault of our businessmen. You know that for the last fifteen years every legitimate avenue of expression—newspapers, magazines, book publishing houses—has been closed to them. All these so-called respectable publications, owned by conservatives, have been stuffed with pinks who maintain a blockade against all real advocates of our side. Only the Hayeks and such other compromisers are allowed to get through, the kind who do more good to the communist cause than ours."

Ayn Rand, Letters