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COLLECTIVSM

Collectivism describes any outlook or philosophy that stresses the interactivity between people. It is

often considered the opposite of individualism, though both can be important within a single outlook.

In a collective philosophy, the group or society is seen as having precedence over the individual.

There are two basic types of collectivism: horizontal and vertical. In the horizontal type, members of

the collective are considered to be as equal as possible, sharing resources and responsibilities. The

vertical variety includes a social hierarchy that society members work to maintain, and people submit

to those above them in the hierarchy.

Collectivism is perhaps best known as one of the philosophies behind socialism. Communist and

fascist societies have been described as collectivist, or more specifically as vertical forms. Early

collectivist political thought, exemplified by Jean-Jacques Rousseaus 1762Social Contract, was

more horizontal or democratic in nature. Rousseau's work eventually inspired both communism and

democracy.

While the writings of Rousseau and Marx, along with most socialist and democratic communities in

practice, rely on the government to represent the will of the people, this is not a necessary

component of a collectivist system. For example, collectivist anarchism calls for no government or

private property ownership, but rather small communes that own property together. Small horizontalcollectivist communities likewise may not have any leader or centralized authority. An example of

such a community is the Israeli kibbutzim, small farming communities in which people voluntarily

share all labor and property.

Its Collectivism vs. Individualism

Copyright 2010 By Ray Thomas

People think the basic conflict today is between liberals and conservatives. Its not.Its between believers in collectivism and those who believe in individualism. They

think that it is the difference between simply their own definitionof compassion and

mean-spiritedness. It isnt that. atall. Its the difference betweencollectivism and

individualism.

Collectivism is really pretty simple, no matter how much collectivists want to

complicate it so you will not understand what theyre trying to put over on you. It is

defined thusly by one of the best known collectivists, Karl Marx, author of

communism, in his tome, the Communist Manifesto:From each according to

his ability, and to each according to his need. Meaning it is okay to :take from onewho earnedit and give that taken to those who did not. This gave permission for

government to steal from one and give to another to gain power over both.

They want you to think the fight is between right and left. It is not. Thereal fight is,

while it is still between right and left, on the left, counter to common belief, is always

a despotic government, in complete control of its populace while on the right, contrary


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to what they want you to think, is notfascism or Nazism, but complete freedom,

which is sometimes called anarchism.

Neither is something we want to have, for different reasons. We need to be

somewhere in the middle, with just enough government to keep us from each others

throats, but only that much.

It has always been thus: remember back when every country was ruled by a king or

queen, who had a bunch of lesser officials called many things such as barons and

such? The king or queen was a liberal who thought he/she was better, smarter than thecommoner. The barons and such, too. They lived off the work and sweat of the

commoner. They thought they had the divine right of kings to do that. They

didnt. Robin Hood has always gotten a bad rap, being pictured as stealing from

the rich and giving to the poor. Not true, as is so with most of the changed history

that has been written by those rulers. What he did was take back what was stolen by

the king in the form of excessive taxes and give thatto its rightful owners, thecommoners.

Crisis Government

One of the most oft used methods, used to this day by those who would run your lives

is taking advantage of any crisis that comes along, and if one doesnt come

along, creatingone. Have you ever wondered why it seems like there is a new crisis

announced just about every day? President Obamas chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel,is famously quoted as saying, Never let a good crisis go to waste. Thats because to

cure a crisis, those who wish to control you can get laws passed that they could nothave hoped to pass without that crisis.

Massive Conspiracy

Some thinkthere is some kind of a massive conspiracy to control the world, run by

the international bankers. Theyre wrong. But there are conspiracies, and that is one of

them. A single conspiracy would soon collapse under the weight of individual

egos.Many conspiracies based on aphilosophydo not. Most of todays conspiracies

are based on the philosophy ofcollectivism. Which is the reason why they looklike a

single conspiracy to many. But it doesnt matter who is right. The answeris investigation and exposure.These conspiracies cant stand the light of day.

Totalitarianism

Under whatever name it uses, altruism (which is collectivism, socialism, communism,

liberalism, progressivism, fascism, etc., it requires totalitarian government, to ensure


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everybodys rights are subordinate to that of the state. It amazed me how many peopledont even know what collectivism is. My ownsisterdidnt know until I explained it

to her.

Anarchy Cant Work

No more than can collectivism. Ayn Rand, author of that prophetic work, Atlas

Shrugged, said this about anarchy:Anarchy, as a political concept, is a nave

floating abstraction: . . .a society without an organized government would be at the

mercy of the first criminal who came along and would precipitate it into the chaos of

gang warfare. It is the need forobjective laws and for an arbiter of honest

disagreements among men that necessitates the establishment of government.

No More Than That

We need no more government than it takes to do that job. It has been said in Congressthat there is nothing in the Constitution that says the government can take money and

property from one person and give it to another, no matter how much he/sheneeds it.

They want to make all your decisions for you. You should always be able to think for

yourself. They dont think youre smart enough Dont let them fool you! It isnt

logical. Use your own logic to rejecttheir ideas.

No Logic, No Absolutes

Liberals (subjectivist collectivists) say there is no logic and no absolutes. They hope

to prove that by making a logical statement of an absolute, which serves to illustratetheir ignorance. Thats what Is love about debating liberals. Their sublime ignorance

that causes them to have to use something they deny exists to illustrate their erroneous

points.

COLLECTIVISMvs.

INDIVIDUALISM

COLLECTIVISM

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INDIVIDUALISM


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"COLLECTIVISM: Collectivism is

defined as the theory and practice that

makes some sort of group rather than theindividual the fundamental unit of

political, social, and economic concern.In theory, collectivists insist that the

claims of groups, associations, or the

state must normally supersede the claimsof individuals." -- Stephen Grabill and

Gregory M. A. Gronbacher,HERE

"collectivism ... treats society as if itwere a super-organism existing over and

above its individual members, andwhich takes the collective in some form(e.g., tribe, race, or state) to be the

primary unit of reality and standard of

value." -- Prof. Fred D. MillerHERE

"Collectivism means the subjugation of

the individual to a group -- whether to a

race, class or state does not matter.Collectivism holds that man must be

chained to collective action and

collective thought for the sake of what iscalled 'the common good'." -- Ayn

Rand,HERE

"Collectivism is a form of

anthropomorphism. It attempts to see a

group of individuals as having a singleidentity similar to a person. ...

Collectivism demands that the group be

more important than the individual. It

requires the individual to sacrifice

himself for the alleged good of thegroup." -- Jeff Landauer and Joseph

RowlandsHERE

"Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the

subordination of one's interests to those

"Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political

one. As an ethical-psychological concept,

individualism holds that a human being shouldthink and judge independently, respecting

nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her

mind; thus, it is intimately connected with the

concept of autonomy. As an ethical-politicalconcept, individualism upholds the supremacy

ofindividual rights..." -- Nathaniel

BrandenHERE

"INDIVIDUALISM: The term 'individualism'

has a great variety of meanings in social and

political philosophy. There are at least threetypes that can be distinguished: (1) ontological

individualism, (2) methodological

individualism, and (3) moral or politicalindividualism. Ontological individualism is the

doctrine that social reality consists, ultimately,

only of persons who choose and act.Collectives, such as a social class, state, or a

group, cannot act so they are not considered to

have a reality independent of the actions of

persons. Methodological individualists hold that

the only genuinely scientific propositions insocial science are those that can be reduced to

the actions, dispositions, and decisions ofindividuals. Political or moral individualism is

the theory that individuals should be left, as far

as possible, to determine their own futures ineconomic and moral matters. Key thinkers

include Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek,

Milton Friedman, Robert Nozick, John Locke,

and Herbert Spencer." -- Stephen Grabill andGregory M. A. GronbacherHERE

"The foundation of individualism lies in

one's moral right to pursue one's ownhappiness. This pursuit requires a large amount

of independence, initiative, and self-

responsibility."But true individualism entails cooperating
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of others." -- Ayn Rand,Letters of Ayn

Rand

"Collectivism, unlike individualism,holds the group as the primary, and the

standard of moral value." -- Mark DaCunhaHERE

"G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), and Karl

Marx (1818-83) ... both viewed political

phenomena as the inevitable result ofhistorical processes, and regarded

collectives as of greater reality and valuethan their individual members." -- Prof.

Fred D. MillerHERE

"collectivist ethical principle: man is not

an end to himself, but is only a tool to

serve the ends of others. Whether those'others' are a dictator's gang, the nation,

society, the race, (the) god(s), the

majority, the community, the tribe, etc.,is irrelevant -- the point is that man in

principle must be sacrificed to others." --

Mark Da CunhaHERE

"Collectivism is the political theory that

states that the will of the people isomnipotent, an individual must obey;

that society as a whole, not the

individual, is the unit of moral value. ...

Collectivism is the application ofthealtruist ethicsto politics." -- Dr. Andrew

Bernstein,HERE

"The antipode of individualism is

collectivism, which subordinates theindividual to the group -- be it the

'community,' the tribe, the race, theproletariat, etc. A person's moral worth

is judged by how much he sacrifices

himself to the group. [Under

with others through trade, which facilitates thepursuit of each party's happiness, and which is

carried out not just on the level of goods but onthe level of knowledge and friendship. Trade is

essential for life; it provides one with many ofthe goods and values one needs. Creating anenvironment where trade flourishes is of great

importance and great interest for the

individualist.

"Politically, true individualism meansrecognizing that one has a right to his own life

and happiness. But it also means uniting with

other citizens to preserve and defend the

institutions that protect that right." -- Shawn E.KleinHERE

"Individualism regards man -- every man -- as

an independent, sovereign entity who possesses

an inalienable right to his own life, a rightderived from his nature as a rational being.

Individualism holds that a civilized society, or

any form of association, cooperation or

peaceful co-existence among men, can beachieved only on the basis of the recognition

ofindividual rights-- and that a group, as such,

has no rights other than the individual rights of

its members." -- Ayn RandHERE

"Individual rights are the means ofsubordinating society to moral law." -- Ayn

Rand

"Individual rights are not subject to apublic vote; a majority has no right to voteaway the rights of a minority; the politicalfunction of rights is precisely to protectminorities from oppression by majorities

(and the smallest minority on earth is theindividual)."--Ayn Rand

Relevant Comments

"This right to life, this right to liberty, and this
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collectivism] the more emergencies (and

victims) the better, because they provide

more opportunity for 'virtue'." --Glenn

Woiceshyn

"Collectivism is the doctrine that thesocial collective -- calledsociety, the

people, the state, etc. -- has rights,

needs, or moral authority above andapart from the individuals who comprise

it. We hear this idea continually

championed in such familiar platitudes

as 'the needs of the people takeprecedence over the rights of the

individual,' 'production for people, notprofits,' and 'the common good.'

"Collectivism often sounds humane

because it stresses the importance of

human needs. In reality, it is little more

than a rationalization for sacrificing youand me to the desires of others." -- Jarret

B. Wollstein in The Causes of

Aggression,HERE

"Don't forget that pure democracy is a

form of collectivism -- it readilysacrifices individual rights to majority

wishes. Since it involves no

constitutional bill of rights, or at least,

no working and effective one, themajority-of-the-moment can and does

vote away the rights of the minority-of-

the-moment, even of a singleindividual. This has been called'mobrule,' the 'tyranny of the majority'and

many other pejorative names. It is one

of the greatest threats to liberty, thereason why America'sfounding fathers

wroteso much so disparagingly of pure

democracy." -- Bert Rand

"A social system is a code of laws

right to pursue ones happiness is unabashedlyindividualistic, without in the slightest denying

at the same time our thoroughly social nature.

Its only that our social relations, while vital to

us all, must bechosen - that is what makes thecrucial difference." -- Prof. Tibor R.Machan,HEREandHERE

"...individualism is not antithetical tocommunity. Rather, it can involve free

association and a belief in an over-arching

harmony of interests. In a free socety,

individuals join with others because of love andmutual benefit, not because they are

programmed or coerced." --Prof. Clifford Thies

"One byproduct of individualism is

benevolence -- a general attitude of good will

towards one's neighbors and fellow humanbeings. Benevolence is impossible in a society

where people violate each others' rights." --

Glenn Woiceshyn

"Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women

who are free to pursue individualism andmaterial wealth turn out to be the most

compassionate of all." --Financial Times,London, Nov 22, 2001

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all

men are created equal, that they are endowed bytheir Creator with certain unalienable Rights,

that among these are Life, Liberty and the

pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure theserights, Governments are instituted among Men,

deriving their just powers from the consent of

the governed, --That whenever any Form of

Government becomes destructive of these ends,it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish

it, and to institute new Government, laying its

foundation on such principles and organizing its

powers in such form, as to them shall seemmost likely to effect their Safety and

Happiness." -- Jefferson et al,The Declaration
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which men observe in order to live

together. Such a code must have a basic

principle, a starting point, or it cannot be

devised. The starting point is thequestion: Is the power of society limited

or unlimited?

"Individualism answers: The power ofsociety is limited by the inalienable,

individual rights of man. Society may

make only such laws as do not violatethese rights.

"Collectivism answers: The power of

society is unlimited. Society may make

any laws it wishes, and force them upon

anyone in any manner it wishes." -- AynRand, Textbook of Americanism,HERE

"Racism is the lowest, most crudely

primitive form of collectivism. It is the

notion of ascribing moral, social orpolitical significance to a man's genetic

lineage -- the notion that a man's

intellectual and characterological traits

are produced and transmitted by hisinternal body chemistry. Which means,

in practice, that a man is to be judged,not by his own character and actions, butby the characters and actions of a

collective of ancestors. [...] When men

began to be indoctrinated once morewith the notion that the individual

possesses no rights, that supremacy,

moral authority and unlimited powerbelong to the group, and that a man has

no significance outside his group -- the

inevitable consequence was that men

began to gravitate toward some group oranother, in self-protection, in

bewilderment and in subconscious

terror. The simplest collective to join,

the easiest one to identify -- particularlyfor people of limited intelligence -- the

of Independence

"The fact that most people think that ...

pursuing one's own self-interest equates to

behaving brutally or irrationally, is, as Ms.Rand noted, a 'psychological confession'

ontheir part. In fact it isagainst one's

own long-term self-interest to behave

irrationally or trample others. Such actions arethe exact opposite of selfish -- they're self-destructive." --Wayne Dunn

(Emphasis added. Criminals and other

sociopaths do not think in terms of how theiractions affect the society around them and set

bad examples for others. Nor do they

empathize with others, certainly not theirvictims. And they certainly don't feel the pride

of honest achievement or of helping to build

civilization.)

"Individualism is a concept which the advocates

of most political systems try desperately toavoid. They'd prefer that political contests,

debates and symposia were limited to

answering loaded questions such as, 'WHICH

type of powerful government should we have?',

'WHICH type of dictatorship do you tend toprefer?", 'WHAT KINDS of intrusiveness

should government engage in?' and, 'WHICH

type of control freaks are best suited to run

your life for you?'... They often get upset, even

hysterical, if you point out thatsocialism,fascism, communism and mixed-economy

welfare-states have a lot in common.1 They

carry on and on as ifnon-essentials such

as style(!) or WHAT anybody sacrificesindividual rights in the name of (the master

race, the proletariat, the society, the commongood, the majority, the country, the fatherland,

the motherland the brother-in-law-land, therevered leader or savior or god or whatever) is a

big freakin' deal, especially as only

in theirparticular fantasies do they imagineeveryone, the enforcers and even their victims,
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least demanding form of "belonging"

and of "togetherness" is: race. [...] It is

thus that the theoreticians of

collectivism, the 'humanitarian'advocates of a 'benevolent' absolute state

... led to the rebirth and the new, virulent

growth of racism in the 20th century." --Ayn Rand in "Racism",HERE

"The core of racism is the notion that the

individual is meaningless and that

membership in the collective -- the race

-- is the source of his identity and value.... The notion of 'diversity' entails

exactly the same premises as racism --that one's ideas are determined by one'srace and that the source of an

individual's identity is his ethnic

heritage." -- Peter Schwartz in "The

Racism of 'Diversity',"HERE

"Primitive communism ... once existed

among all peoples and still survives inmany uncivilized countries. All

production in this stage of society is

under the direction of chiefs or councilsof elders. No individual responsibility

exists." -- George Winder,HERE

Statism

"Collectivism holds that the individual

has no rights, that his life and work

belong to the group (to "society," to the

tribe, the state, the nation) and that the

group may sacrifice him at its own whimto its own interests. The only way to

implement a doctrine of that kind is bymeans of brute force -- and statism has

always been the poltical corollary of

acting forever polite and cooperative in thesacrifice-extracting rituals (as have many

fledgling and would-be dictators, including theincredibly bloodyPol Potat first)." --Rick

Gaber

"Freedom is an intellectual achievement which

requires disavowal of collectivism and embrace

of individualism." -- Onkar Ghate

"The right to be let alone is indeed the

beginning of all freedom." -- U.S. Supreme

Court Justice William O. Douglas

"They conferred, as againstthe Government,

the right to be let alone--the most prehensive ofrights and the right most valued by civilized

men." -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis

Brandeis (Olmstead v. U.S.)

"The right to be let alone is the underlying

principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights." --Erwin N. Griswold

"You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I

own myself or am I just another piece of

government property?'" -- Neal Boortz

"The crucial distinction between systems...was

no longer ideological. The main politicaldifference was between those who did, and

those who did not, believe that the citizen could

-- or should -- be the property of the state." --

Adam Michnik inLetters to a Young

Contrarianby Christopher Hitchens

"In principle, there are only two fundamental

political viewpoints. That is, twocontradictory ends of the 'political spectrum.'

Those two principles are freedom and slavery."

-- Mark Da Cunha

"There is nothing to take a man's freedom away

from him, save other men. To be free, a man
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collectivism." -- Ayn Rand,HERE

"STATISM is that particular form

ofcollectivismin which individuals areforced to be subservient to government

(as distinguished, if possible, from areligious or cult leader, roving invader

or local gangster). Anyone in

government who wants to extend hispower, or anyone else (who has political

influence) with agendas to advance,

monopolies to secure, axes to grind or

revenge to take -- can make claims thatcertain governmental actions would be

in the national, state, society orevenfamilyinterest and must 'therefore'take precedence over any individual

interests whatsoever. With this

'justification' the people in government

can proceed to enforce such claims,often enthusiastically, sometimes

brutally, but always with impunity." --

Rick Gaber

"The policy of seeking values from

human beings by means of force, whenpracticed by an individual, is called

crime. When practiced by a government,

it is called statism ..." -- Nathaniel

Branden,HERE

Relevant Comments

"Collectivism is the ancient principle of

savagery. ... Collectivism is not the

'New Order of Tomorrow.' It is theorder of a very dark yesterday." --Ayn

Rand

"Altruismdemands that an individual

serve others, but doesnt stipulate

must be free of his brothers." -- Ayn Rand

"A man's rights are not violated by a private

individual's refusal to deal with him." -- Ayn

Rand,The Virtue of Selfishness

"Collective judgment of new ideas is so often

wrong that it is arguable that progress dependson individuals being free to back their own

judgment despite collective disapproval." --

W.A. Lewis

"There is no greater stupidity or meanness than

to take uniformity for an ideal.'' -- George

Santayana,The Life of Reason

"The majority, oppressing an individual, isguilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by

acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the

foundations of society." --Thomas Jefferson to

Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816

"There can be no such thing, in law or in

morality, as actions forbidden to an individual,but permitted to a mob." -- Ayn Rand

"It is strangely absurd to suppose that a millionof human beings, collected together, are not

under the same moral laws which bind each of

them separately." -- Thomas Jefferson

"We hold that what one man cannot morally do,a million men cannot morally do, and

government, representing many millions of

men, cannot do." -- Auberon Herbert

"The people cannot delegate to government the

power to do anything which would be unlawfulfor them to do themselves." -- John Locke

"The policy of seeking values from human

beings by means of force, when practiced by anindividual, is called crime. When practiced by a

government, it is calledstatism..." -- Nathaniel
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whether those others should be onesfamily, or the homeless, or society as a

whole. Collectivism states that, in

politics, society comes first and theindividual must obey. Collectivism isthe application of the altruist ethics to

politics." -- Dr. AndrewBernstein,HERE [emphasis added -

ed.]

"... So here we get the two essentials of

Nazism: the rejection of reason and the

mind in favor of the worship of bruteemotion, and the elevation of the

collective over the individual. What,then, distinguishes the ideas ofthemodern intellectualsfrom the

philosophy of the Nazis? The addition of

an altruist twist. The Nazis were

certainly pro-self-sacrifice, because theyadvocated (and enforced) the sacrifice of

the individual self to the collective

aggrandizement of the race. But the

modern intellectuals declare that theyare even more altruistic because they

want to sacrifice our own race to otherraces." -- Robert Tracinski,HERE

"If men want to oppose war, it is statism

that they must oppose. So long as theyhold the tribal notion that the individual

is sacrificial fodder for the collective,

that some men have the right to ruleothers by force, and that some (any)

alleged 'good' can justify it -- there can

be no peace within a nation and no peace

among nations." -- Ayn Rand,HERE

"Among other grand achievements, F.

A. Hayek had a remarkable careerpointing out the flaws in collectivism.

One of his keenest insights was that,

BrandenHERE

"Over himself, over his own mind and body, theindividual is sovereign" -- John Stuart Mill,On

Liberty(1859), "Introductory"

"The case for a free society rests on

individualism. ... Every form of totalitarianism

has sought control over the minds ofindividuals, and has understood that it must first

undermine the individuals confidence in the

validity of his own faculties. Remember

OBriens speech to Winston Smith in

Orwells1984 ... " -- David KelleyHERE

"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism,whether it professes to be enforcing the will of

God or the injunctions of men."-- John Stuart

Mill,On Liberty

"It is embarrassing to have to remind people of

this in the United States of America. In theDeclaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson

singled out three natural rights: life, liberty, and

the pursuit of happiness. The last phrase,appearing instead of 'property,' has prompted

much discussion. I cannot say what Jeffersonwas thinking. But here's a plausible theory:

Property is already implicit in liberty. If you arefree, you can use your belongings as you see fit.

But by specifying the pursuit of happiness

Jefferson might have been pointing out that theblessing of liberty need not be justified through

selfless service to others. One's life and

happiness on earth are justification enough." --Sheldon Richman

"The right to the pursuit of happiness IS theright to beselfish. You'd think Americans, of

all people, would take pride in that, and in

precisely what that really means." -- Rick

Gaber

"The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the
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paradoxically, any collectivist system

necessarily depends on one individual

(or small group) to make key social and

economic decisions. In contrast, asystem based on individualism takes

advantage of the aggregate, or

'collective,' information of the wholesociety; through his actions each

participant contributes his own

particular, if incomplete, knowledgeinformation that could never be tapped

by the individual at the head of a

collectivist state." -- Sheldon

Richman,HERE

"People who are very aware that theyhave more knowledge than the average

person are often very unaware that they

do not have one-tenth of the knowledge

of all of the average persons puttogether. In this situation, for the

intelligentsia to impose their notions on

ordinary people is essentially to impose

ignorance on knowledge." -- Dr. ThomasSowell,HERE

"It is collectivism that is the unrealistic

expression of utopian belief systems. In

its worst form -- the state -- collectivism

is the institutionalized exertion ofviolence to compel living beings to

behave contrary to their natural self-

interest inclinations. So strong are themotivations for individual preferences

that the state must resort to attacks upon

the very nature of life to satisfy the

ambitions of those who see others asnothing more than resources to be

exploited for such ends." -- Butler

Shaffer,HERE

"A man's admiration for absolute

word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: itrepresents a devastating intellectual 'package-

deal,' which is responsible, more than any othersingle factor, for the arrested moral

development of mankind." --Ayn Rand

"The right to the pursuit of happiness means

man's right to live for himself, to choose what

constitutes his own, private, personal happinessand to work for its achievement. Each

individual is the sole and final judge in this

choice. A man's happiness cannot be prescribed

to him by another man or by any number ofother men. ... These rights are the

unconditional, personal, private, individual

possession of every man, granted to him by thefact of his birth and requiring no other

sanction. Such was the conception of the

founders of our country, who placed individualrights above any and all collective claims." --

Ayn Rand

"America's abundance was not created by

public sacrifices to the common good, but by

the productive genius of free men who pursued

their own personal interests and the making of

their own private fortunes." -- Ayn Rand

"The idea that 'the public interest' supersedesprivate interests and rights can have but one

meaning: that the interests and rights of some

individuals take precedence over the interestsand rights of others." -- Ayn Rand

"America was founded on the principle of

inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The

Declaration of Independence states that every

human being has a right to life, liberty and thepursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is

born a slave to the needs of others." --Alex

Epstein

"The smallest minority on earth is the

individual. Those who deny individual rights
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government is proportionate to the

contempt he feels for those around him"-

- Alexis de Tocqueville

"Socialism collapsed because it is a

policy of unrestrained intervention. Ittries to fix what is 'wrong' with the

spontaneous, self-organizing

phenomenon called capitalism. But, ofcourse, a natural process cannot be

'fixed.' ... Socialism is an ideology.

Capitalism is a natural phenomenon." --

Michael Rothschild inBIONOMICS:

Economy as Ecosystem

"Not understanding the process ofaspontaneously-ordered economygoes

hand-in-hand with not understanding the

creation of resources and wealth." --Julian Simon

"The market is not an invention ofcapitalism. It has existed for centuries.

It is an invention of civilization." --

Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990

"The primary goal of collectivism -- of

socialism in Europe and contemporaryliberalism in America -- is to enlarge

governmental supervision of individuals'

lives. This is done in the name of

equality. People are to be conscriptedinto one large cohort, everyone equal

(although not equal in status or power to

the governing class) in their status as

wards of a self-aggrandizing

government." -- George Will,HERE

"I think a major reason

whyintellectualstend to move towards

collectivism is that the collectivist

answer is a simple one. If theres

cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." --Ayn Rand

"Contrary to what leftists want us to believe,

individualism does not mean looting others tosatisfy one's desires. Nor does it mean

unconcern for others. ...Individualism, not

collectivism or altruism, is the root ofbenevolence and good will among men." --Glenn Woiceshyn,HERE

"State-mandated compassion produces, not lovefor ones fellow man, but hatred and

resentment. The breakdown of 'basic civility'

and the rise of the welfare state occur

concurrently." --Lizard

"The Nazis are well remembered for murderingwell over 11 million people in the

implementation of their slogan, 'The publicgood before the private good,'the Chinese

Communists for murdering 62 million people inthe implementation of theirs, 'Serve thepeople,'and the Soviet Communists for

murdering more than 60 million people in theimplementation of Karl Marx's slogan, 'from

each according to his ability, to each accordingto his needs.' Anyone who defends any of

these, or any variation of them, on the groundsof their 'good intentions' is an immoral (NOT

'amoral') enabler of the ACTUAL (not just the

proverbial) road to hell." --Rick Gaber

"If men want to oppose war, it is statism thatthey must oppose. So long as they hold the

tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial

fodder for the collective, that some men have

the right to rule others by force, and that some(any) alleged 'good' can justify it -- there can be

no peace within a nation and no peace among

nations." -- Ayn Rand,The Roots of War

"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the

individual decisively, once and for all." --
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something wrong, pass a law and do

something about it." --Milton Friedman

"People have often been willing to giveup personal identity and join into a

collective. Historically, that propensityhas usually been very bad news.

Collectives tend to be mean, to designate

official enemies, to be violent, and todiscourage creative, rigorous thought.

Fascists, communists, religious cults,

criminal 'families'there has been no

end to the varieties of human collectives,but it seems to me that these examples

have quite a lot in common. I wonder ifsome aspect of human nature evolved inthe context of competing packs. We

might be genetically wired to be

vulnerable to the lure of the mob." --

Jaron Lanier,HERE

"Collectivism is the real-world

manifestation of the subjective, emotion-based feral animal origins of humanity,

like some recurring echo emanating

from the primitive reptile brain thatphysically exists in all of us. It is the

antithesis of rational objectivity,

something that no amount of fancy

verbiage from Marx or Chomsky orHimmler or Plato or Rousseau can

disguise in their respective paeans to

force and unity over intellect andevolution. Collectivism is a fancy word

for tribalism. It is a hold over, an

atavistic throw back ..." -- Perry de

Havilland,HERE

"Totalitarianism is collectivism.

Collectivism means the subjugation ofthe individual to a group -- whether to a

race, class or state does not matter.

Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev,addressing the 20th Congress of the Soviet

Communist Party, 2-25-56

"The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worthfar more than the freedom of the spirit and will

of an individual; and that the higher interests

involved in the life of the whole must here set

the limits and lay down the duties of theinterests of the individual." -- Adolph Hitler

"We need to stop worrying about the rights ofthe individual and start worrying about what is

best for society." -- Hillary Clinton

"...we understand only the individual's capacityto make sacrifices for the community, for his

fellow men." -- Adolf Hitler, 10-7-33

"We're going to take things away from you on

behalf of the common good." -- Senator HillaryRodham Clinton, June 28, 2004.

"To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou;socialism is sacrificing the individual to the

whole." -- Joseph Goebbels, Minister of

Propaganda, National Socialist GermanWorkers' ("Nazi") Party

"What, actually, is the difference betweencommunism and fascism? Both are forms of

statism, authoritarianism. The only difference

between Stalins communism and Mussolinisfascism is an insignificant detail in

organizational structure." --Leonard E. Read

"Racism, as a set of beliefs based upon the

arbitrary assertion that the content of one'smind and one's character are inherited and

unchangeable, is something I can demonstrateto be complete and total bullspit just from my

own personal experience. You see, I disagree

with more than half the teachings of my ownparents, and probably 90% of my other
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Collectivism holds that man must be

chained to collective action and

collective thought for the sake of what is

called `the common good. Throughouthistory, no tyrant ever rose to power

except on the claim of representing `the

common good. Napoleon `served thecommon good of France. Hitler [was]

`serving the common good of

Germany. Horrors which no man woulddare consider for his own selfish sake

are perpetrated with a clear conscience

by `altruists who justify themselves by -

- the common good." -- Ayn

Rand,HERE

"But I want you to LOVE ME!!!!"--

Franz-Josef, Emperor of Austria-

Hungary, as he screamed at a subject

while having him horsewhipped.

"Statismthe subordination of the

individual to the state -- leads inevitablyto the most hideous oppression." --

Andrew Bernstein,HERE

"The superficial distinctions of Fascism,

Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern

of journalists and publicists; the seriousstudent sees in them only one root-idea

of a complete conversion of social

power into State power." -- Albert JayNock

Click the pic to see the story of this

COLLECTIVIST CURRENCY:

"... statism systematically violates the

rights of individuals and is, therefore,

ancesters. And I'm a cheerful, friendlyoptimist, while the vast majority of them have

been cynical, suspicious pessimists. The onlypeople who can consistently claim racism could

be valid are those people who agree with andact like their parents and ancestors 100% of thetime, have accepted everything they believe on

blind faith, and have done absolutely no

thinking, let alone corroborating, of their own.

Who in their right minds would ever want totake seriously whatever such a pathetic creature

has to say anyway?" -- Rick Gaber

"I have often lamented that with the collapse of

the Soviet bloc, the forces of liberalism did not

spend nearly enough time ruthlessly drivingintellectual stakes through the hearts of all those

who supported the 'Evil Empire' or preached

appeasement or claimed that the Soviet systemwas 'just another way of living' rather than a

mass murderous tyranny." --Perry de Havilland

"Mostmodern intellectualscongratulate

themselves for having achieved the allegedly

momentus insight that capitalism and altruism

are ultimately incompatible. Yet they're still

too damned ignorant to realize, or too damnedstubborn to acknowledge, that altruism is

definitely NOT the only moral code available tomankind; it is, in fact, the bloodiest and most

regressive one of all. Such stunted thinking on

the part of the intelligentsia has resulted in theircommitting the intellectual atrocity of rejecting

the capitalism and freedom instead of the

altruism and coercion." --Rick Gaber

"The three values which men held for centuries

and which have now collapsed are: mysticism,collectivism, altruism. Mysticism -- as acultural power -- died at the time of the

Renaissance. Collectivism -- as a political ideal

-- died in World War II. As to altruism -- it hasnever been alive. It is the poison of death in the

blood of Western civilization, and men survived
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immoral. Because it suppresses the

mind and violatesmens rights, it

thereby causes abysmal poverty and is

utterly impractical." -- AndrewBernstein,HERE

"All politicians are collectivists. Theydon't care about privacy."

-- Professor Ian Angell

"Wherever the real power in a

Government lies, there is the danger of

oppression. In our Governments the realpower lies in the majority of the

community, and the invasion of privaterights is chiefly to be apprehended, notfrom acts of Government contrary to the

sense of its constituents, but from acts in

which the Government is the mere

instrument of the major number of theConstituents." --James Madison, in a

letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1788

"Apure democracy ... can admit no cure

for the mischiefs of faction. A common

passion or interest will, in almost everycase, be felt by a majority, and there is

nothing to check the inducements to

sacrifice the weaker party... Hence it is

that democracies have ever been found

incompatible with personal security or

the rights of property; and have, in

general, been as short in their lives as

they have been violent in thier deaths."-

- James Madison, Federalist No. 10

"Isn't it somewhat remarkable that wecan go back a a few hundred years and

find no shortage of quotations from our

founding fathers warning us against thedangers of democracy, yet today

teachers and politicians use the word as

it only to the extent to which they neitherbelieved nor practiced it. ..." --Ayn Rand

"[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that

man has no right to exist for his own sake, thatservice to others is the sole justification of his

existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest

moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral

base of collectivism, of all dictatorships." --Ayn Rand

"Republicans don't know how todefend morally an individual's right to achieve

wealth and to keep it, and that is why they fail.

... It's part and parcel with their ambivalence

over the individualist heritage of the nation. ...One of the things that people have to

understand is that the American Revolution was

truly an epic revolution in the way individualswere perceived in relation to the rest of the

society. Throughout history individuals had

always been cogs in some machine; they'dalways been something to be sacrified for the

king, the tribe, the gang, the chieftain, the

society around them, the race, whatever, and

the real revolution, in America especially, was

a moral revolution. It was a moral revolution inthat ... suddenly, with the Declaration of

Independence and the Constitution, theindividual, his life, his well-

being, his property,his happiness

became central to our values, and thatis whatreally made America unique. People came here

from all over the world to try to escape the kind

of oppression they had and experienced in the

past. They came here for freedom; they camehere for self-expression and self-realization,

and America offered them thatkind of a place."-- Robert Bidinotto

"Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a

moral ideal, is dead. But freedom andindividualism, and their political expression,

capitalism, have not yet been discovered." --
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if it were an offering of gold." --Neal

Boortz

"'Democracy' does not mean freedom." --Mark Da Cunha

"The issue here is liberty, and

democracy is far from a synonym forthat." --Perry de Havilland

"Democracy is four wolves and a sheep

voting on dinner." -- Robert A. Heinlein

"Democracy must be something more

than two wolves and a sheep voting onwhat to have for dinner." -- James

Bovard

"Lynch mobs are democracies." -- Neal

Boortz

"Our founding fathers detested the idea

of a democracy and labored long to

prevent America becoming one. Onceagain -- the word 'democracy' does not

appear in the Declaration ofIndependence, the Constitution of theUnited States, or the constitution of any

of the fifty states. Not once.

Furthermore, take a look at State of theUnion speeches. You wont find the 'D'

word uttered once until the Wilson

years." -- Neal Boortz, Nov. 7, 2002

"Democracy in itself does not define or

guarantee a free society. History has told

many stories of democratic societies thathave degenerated into corruption,

plunder, and tyranny." --Richard M.

Ebeling

"Fifty-one percent of a nation can

Ayn Rand

"It is not as late as you think. It is merely early -

- in the age of the rebirth of individualism." --

Ayn Rand
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establish a totalitarian regime, suppress

minorities and still remain democratic."-

- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

"I cant think of anything that would do

more toward putting us back on the roadto liberty and personal responsibility

than for the average American, and for

the news media, to come to theunderstanding that we are not a

democracy, nor were we supposed to

be." -- Neal Boortz

"The United States shall guarantee to

every state in this union a republicanform of government..." -- United StatesConstitution, Article IV, Section 4

"The people in the MSM (mainstreammedia) don't think of themselves as

liberal. They're just in favor of

collectivism and against individualism

in general -- withoutusing many labels

(or much thought) ofany kind. They go

out of their way only to mention a

minority group if they can. Groupism iswhat they believe in." --Rick Gaber
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