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Collectivism is a broad label for any ideology maintaining that society or some other group of people should matter more to an individual than his or her own self.[1] This can also mean a sacrifice of the individual to an ideology.

In economics, collectivism refers more specifically to mandated state or collective control of industrial and commercial concerns. This is often desired to further the goals of the former sort of collectivism.

These sorts of ideologies are most stridently opposed by "individualists" on those grounds, although different groups of collectivists are often at each other's throats as well over what group is more important than the individual. Of course, even extreme individualists (see below) have joined their own collectives to further their causes, making the horseshoe theory that much more interesting.

[edit] Examples of collectivist ideologies

Ideology Exalted group
Socialism, communism Working class
Objectivism The Ayn Rand collective
Identity politics The given identity group
Nationalism Nation
Racism Race
Nazism Aryan master race
Secular humanism Humanity
Militarism Military
Ideology of any cult The cult

[edit] Quotes

Far from crushing the individual, the Fascist State multiplies his energies, just as in a regiment a soldier is not diminished but multiplied by the number of his fellow soldiers.
Benito Mussolini
The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far 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 the interests of the individual.
Adolf Hitler

[edit] Footnotes

  1. Webster's dictionary (meaning 2).
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