Very much anti-capitalist

Rand would call "Workers" leaches and likely did but I don't know of a specific reference.

However what the collectivist love to leave out of this statement is that she is referring to the looters who show up to a job, provide excuses but no results over and over again.

If this type of "Worker" is called a leach it sounds rather appropriate to me as the metaphorical comparison is quite good.

She showed nothing but respect and admiration for anyone that truly was a producer in their work, no matter what that work was..

Work without production is leaching off those who do produce something. That type of worker she would call a leach and probably has since she has called them a lot of other things that represent well what they are in society.

“Ruthless capitalism” - a no hold bared system where crony capitalists commonly bribe big governments for political favor, typically for big social contracts or to squash their completion.

If I was a misinformed “liberal” I might believe that Ayn Rand was in favor of this.

Anti-Rand...that is pathetic. Workers were never called "leeches." Anyone who sayd Ayn was against "workers" never read the book. The entire book preached work ethic!

I can't tell if this article is pro- rand or anti.