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Collectivism

"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 is called "the common good."

Collectivism holds, that, in human affairs, the collective - society, the community, the nation, the proletariat, the race, etc. - is the unit of reality and the standard of value. On this view, the individual has reality only as part of the group, and value only insofar as he serves it.

Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group . . . and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force - and statism has always been the political corollary of collectivism.

Fascism and communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory  . . . both are variants of statism, based on the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of the state.

Modern collectivists . . . see society as a super-organism, as some supernatural entity apart from and superior to the sum of its individual members.

Collectivism does not preach sacrifice as a temporary means to some desirable end. Sacrifice is its end - sacrifice as a way of life. It is man's independence, success, prosperity, and happiness that collectivists wish to destroy.

~ Found at Ayn Rand Lexicon - Collectivism