March 23, 2022
The Curse of Collectivism
Steven Chase
Tim adds:
Rousseau's idea of The Collective Will was quite at odds with the earlier philosophes who saw individalism as the core of human existence and based it on Natural Law. Rousseau argued for the collective, and the collective only, as the source of all social order. His radical notion was at the root of both socialism/communism and fascism. Rousseau wanted to promote the Collective Will as god the State as the Church. In this the deification of the State and the People gave way to the rampant Nationalism of Mussolini and Hitler, after first being forged in the fires of the French Revolution. Every bad idea since - Bolshevism, Naziism, the corrupt fabian socialism of modern times - stems from this terrible idea of group identity. We see it now in BLM and other such radical identity groups. It all goes back to the same fetid source.
Collectivism is a perspective on human life and action. It views people
as a blob requiring unified (if not unanimous) direction. Individualism
is its opposite because it sees "humanity†as an abstract, composed of
unique individuals, each one with a mind and rights of his own. While a
collectivist would readily subsume the individual to such notions as
majority vote or "the general will,†an individualist is wary of any
person or group claiming to speak for others without their consent. -
L.W. Reed
Socialism, communism and fascism are all peas in the same collectivist
pod. They all despise both competition and the individual. The idea of
everything being directed from a single center is perhaps the most
dangerous and dumbest approach to human civilization.Tim adds:
Rousseau's idea of The Collective Will was quite at odds with the earlier philosophes who saw individalism as the core of human existence and based it on Natural Law. Rousseau argued for the collective, and the collective only, as the source of all social order. His radical notion was at the root of both socialism/communism and fascism. Rousseau wanted to promote the Collective Will as god the State as the Church. In this the deification of the State and the People gave way to the rampant Nationalism of Mussolini and Hitler, after first being forged in the fires of the French Revolution. Every bad idea since - Bolshevism, Naziism, the corrupt fabian socialism of modern times - stems from this terrible idea of group identity. We see it now in BLM and other such radical identity groups. It all goes back to the same fetid source.
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Posted by: MY Links at March 25, 2022 01:22 AM (mKmA7)
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Socialism, communism and fascism are all peas in the same collectivist pod. They all despise both competition and the individual. The idea of everything being directed from a single center is perhaps the most dangerous and dumbest approach to human civilization.
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