Atlas Shrugged Part III, Chapter 3: Anti-Greed - Project X, the Railroad Unification Plan, and the Death of Reason
Dagny left paradise. Now she’s back in the real world. And the real world has gotten worse while she was gone.
Government control
Atlas Shrugged Part II, Chapter 6: Miracle Metal - When the Government Freezes Everything
This chapter is the one the whole book has been building toward. Not the philosophical climax. Not the final battle. But the moment where the looters stop pretending and show exactly what they want. And it is bone-chilling.