Louise,
Believe me I do not like to bully. As to your being a collectivist, you are. As to Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand, I have read both of them and even looked them up on Youtube.com. They are very interesting. But am I an afficienado? No way. I like and respect them, Friedman more than Rand, but I don't follow them.
In the first place. Economics it seems to me is a subject where the basic parameters have been well established. Capitalism is the superior moral and ethical position. It has the side benefit of being far superior economically also.
Liberalism is the product of self appointed elites working for their own self aggrandisement. Morally and ethically it is bankrupt.
Tell me can you name me one communist country that was communist as opposed to being a dictatorship? I can't name one off hand.

"The purpose of aliases was not because I could not maintain a position"
So you say. Then you turn right around and say,
"Another purpose was to try to exercise my right to speak here without being called names like "commie," etc., whatever names the peanut gallery had in store on any given day."
In other words when you couldn't convince us of your collectivist position under one alias you quickly made up another.
For anyone that notices your personal policy reflects the position of socialist/communist groups as general. Almost all of them eventually collapse. When the collapse comes they shut down, disclaim the old ism, and come back with a new name and terminology. As Rush Limbaugh says you are the people that never dares tell the truth about yourself.
Ron