Like most things, there isn’t an a/b divide but a spectrum between the two, and in this case it’s even more complicated because a society could take a collectivist view about one thing and an individualist view about others.
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rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 days agoIt is. It replaces one’s own choices with a collective’s common “choice”, and that is usually substituted with most loud and ambitious people’s choice from inside the collective, or the voices that those from outside prefer to hear from it. Bad all around.
Mutual aid and brotherhood are not collectivism. The philosophy that a group of individuals can be regarded as a subject is, possibly without regard for the comprising individuals.
Feyd@programming.dev 3 days ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Definitely. Even some abstract ideologies do.
Say, in ancap finite resources not created by humans (territory, numbers, technologies) are treated as collective property ideally, but since it’s impossible to create anything without them, as private property when mixed with labor. Which means that unused territory belongs to a person who claims it and uses it for something.
RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
This is incredibly reductionist. Wow.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The irony.