The Fallacy of Collectivism

Liberals and Progressives believe in collectivism - the idea that humans can collect together and work for some higher good for the sake of the higher good, usually via the State.

This flies in the face of all human history and reality.

All human life and behavior is collective. Families are collective. Tribes are collective. Civilization is collective. Humans naturally work together to achieve specific ends. Raise Children. Hunt food. Distribute food and defend the group.

Without human collective behavior, we would have no civilization, no religion, no community whatsoever.

Only an individual, completely isolated, is not part of a collective.

So why do progressives and liberals fight against families and businesses and religion? Because, progressive and liberals believe that the "State" over any other group organization.

But is that wise or realistic?

No.

Because the "State" always supports individuals over a true collective.

What do I mean?

Well, "religion", "family", "big business", are things Leftwing progressive/liberals don't like because they do not have control over these groupings without government intervention. So they try to use government policies like welfare and education to promote their ideologies.

But this tends to pervert or destroy these institutions and as a general rule, humans don't like that. This is why folks in true democracies tend not to allow progressive/liberals to attack these institutions. Only in far leftwing ideologies like socialism, fascism, and communism do these ideologies gain any control over religion, family and business.

And here is where the real fallacy happens. Since all human activity tends to naturally be collective, the refusal to acknowledge family, religious, and corporate collectivism, is the refusal to acknowledge basic human activity.

Why?

Because family, religion, and businesses are groups of humans working towards common goals. Groups of humans for mutual benefit. To raise children, to control society, to provide necessary services, these are all collective human behaviors. Big business is still a collection of people who believe they are working to create goods or services that people want. A corporation is NOT a faceless entity, it is a collection of human beings working towards what they believe is a common good.

If you are an entrepreneur, you start alone but your goal is to convince others that your idea is of value to consumers. Once you start collecting other to believe in your ideas, you expand your own ideology. Or rather you develop your business.

So think about it. No human endeavour is without some kind of collectivism. But it is a mutually beneficial collectivism. But left-wing liberal/progressives believe in a State/Government Collectivism where only the Elites benefit because as history has repeatedly shown, Leftwing ideology always creates elites who benefit on the backs of workers.

So it goes back to the "State" and my standing invitation to prove me wrong by describing any socialist, fascist, or communist state that does not rely on elites for governance.

What I mean is that in a true democracy, leaders lead because people believe in their ideas. A successful business succeeds because people believe their products add value to their lives. A family works because they have a common goal. A religion inspires because it offers hope.

In short, human collectivism has a historical record of success. State collectivism is a development of elite intellectualism of the past century with a history of failure. And as I have repeatedly stated, a history of failure does not predict a future of success.

And that is the fallacy of collectivism.