Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.
Ayn RandCapitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future
Ayn RandCollectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.
Ayn RandCollectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force - and statism has always been the poltical corollary of collectivism.
Ayn Rand