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I agree with you, except for one part. I'd correct your closing sentence to "It is a fundamental problem with humanity, which frequently uses coercion as a mea
by scarmig 13y ago
I agree with you, except for one part. I'd correct your closing sentence to
"It is a fundamental problem with humanity, which frequently uses coercion as a means to achieve power."
Collectivism is a slippery concept and seems to amount to "individuals working together to achieve some aim." So long as you have systems of interacting individuals, organizations will arise to achieve economies of scale, and violence will inherently be part of it because of the components that make up the system.
- nickff 13y agoBased on your definition of collectivism, I would agree with you, but I think the definition is too broad. From the Wikipedia article on Collectivism: "Collectivist orientations stress the importance of cohesion within social groups... and in some cases, the priority of group goals over individual goals" You can have individualists "working together to achieve the same aim", for example in a firm (or corporation), but they may place no importance on cohesion or group goals (when they are different from individual goals).