All the way back in 2017 I wrote a blog post about "individualism vs. collectivism" where I posited the (quite widely known) fact that the modern far-leftist ideology is a fundamentally collectivist one.
This is not a mere wild conjecture, "reading between the lines", doing some analysis and discussing at the meta level something that leftists are doing but are not actually directly saying. No, this is directly one of their stated principles.
Zohran Mamdani, the recently elected mayor of New York City, who is very openly and brazenly a socialist, said it very directly and unambiguously in his inauguration speech:
"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism."
And that was not just some kind of throw-away poetic sentiment or a metaphor. It summarizes the exact context of what he says in that part of his speech.
This is, once again, one of the most evil, destructive and discriminatory ideas in modern far-leftism, designed to subjugate people and make them conform to the party line.
In collectivism people are not individual persons, to be treated, interacted with, engaged with, and judged on an individual person-by-person basis. Instead, people are always considered parts of a demographic group, based on generic physical and innate characteristics.
If, for example, someone happens to be black, he will be considered part of a group that shares that same trait, and always treated as a member of that group, as if he were the group itself. Privileges granted to the group will be automatically granted to the person. Special treatment granted to the group will be automatically granted to the person. Any positive actions of the person will be considered actions of the group, rather than the individual person himself. Any transgression done to the individual person will be considered a transgression done to the entire group. Every single person in the group will be considered a victim of any transgression done to any one of them.
This kind of thinking removes individuality and fosters a cult mentality: You are not you, an individual. Instead, you are a part of your group. You are them, as a whole, and they are you, as a whole, inseparable. Anything that happens to you happens to the entire group, anything that happens to anybody else in the group also happens to you. You must, therefore, conform to the group, and only act in accordance to the interests of the group, and take responsibility for the actions of anybody in the group. You must not deviate from the group, you must not act on your own, you must not think on your own.
People who have embraced individuality think for themselves. They are not accountable to some random group that just happens to share some random physical characteristic with them. They can make their own decisions, they can have their own opinions independently of anybody else, they can be critical of other people's opinions, even if those other people happen to share those physical characteristics. They can even outright defy others and refuse to go along with them. Individualists make decisions on their own, not blindly following any particular group. Individualists don't have to have some kind of feeling of responsibility for what other people do, even if those other people happen to share some physical characteristic with them. Individualists are responsible for their own actions, not the actions of others, especially if those others acted completely independently on their own and had nothing to do with the individualist.
And that is, precisely, what collectivism, and thus far-leftism, seeks to remove. Individualists generally do not become cult members because they allow themselves to disagree and have their own differing opinions and views. If they see a group doing or thinking something objectionable, the individualists will refuse to go along. They do not feel a duty to agree with those things in order to embrace, protect and promote the group.
And that is precisely the problem. Individualists are the enemy because they refuse to become cult members. They refuse to be indoctrinated and brainwashed, they refuse to become drones and slaves who are ready to obey orders without question, without skepticism, without criticism, without hesitation, without thinking. They refuse to blindly follow what they are told and what others are doing. They refuse to jump off the bridge even when everybody else in their "group" is doing so.
And that's why far-leftism wants to destroy individualism and impose collectivism.
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