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While the “ism” suggests an ideology rather than an attribute of a real world society, what you describe is the essential balance every society needs to strike
by iostream24 5y ago
While the “ism” suggests an ideology rather than an attribute of a real world society, what you describe is the essential balance every society needs to strike between the group and the individuals, and so you find jail and fines as coercion across a wide variety of countries and systems.
As a native English speaker myself, I urge you to get into etymology and understand socius and collective and community and thereby inoculate yourself against a weird strain of anti logic parading as American political discourse and often used by folks who know better sponsored by the federalist society and Cato institute and such… typically for lowbrow crowd appeal.
No society, by definition, is free from a collective aspect.
- rayiner 5y agoI’ve heard a lot of smears about Federalist Society but “lowbrow” is a new one. I’ll have you know we drink our tea with our pinkies in the air. :D
- luciusdomitius 5y agoPlease, answer the simple question. I refuse to go by the collective will and there could be no violence involved. What happens next? I cannot believe that you went on insulting large groups of people while being unable to answer a simple 6 words question. P.S. I speak relatively fluent Latin, so the etymology play made me chuckle a bit.
- don_esteban 5y agoyou will become pariah until you leave or change your mind?
- luciusdomitius 5y agoIf Pariah means the collectivist people not trading or communicating with you and no violence then I am OK with that. Now, could you explain how this is collectivism and not voluntaryism?
- catawbasam 5y agoIf you define collectivism is group activity enforced by violence vs voluntarism being group activity not enforced by violence then this entire discussion is a word game and a waste of time.
- TaylorAlexander 5y agoYou can have voluntary collectivism. This is where everyone works to find agreement with the group as a matter of course, but only proceeds if that agreement is found. You might find this kind of management in a collectively owned business for example.