What is the difference between collectivism and individualism?
Ayn Rand is perhaps the strongest advocate of individualism with her philosophy of objective thought. One would be hard pressed to find apologists for individualism but can find volumes of such work on collectivism. Collectivism desperately tries to stay alive through it’s endless academic pursuits in essays, and treatise and doctrines. The handful of books that can be found on individualism pale in comparison to the shelves and shelves of tomes and books written in praise of collectivism. Academics, understanding the inherent illogic to collectivism attempt to correct that problem by forcing the idea to behave logically. Thus, collectivism becomes a general term that remains vague and undefined in a general sense so as to allow for more specific forms of collectivism such as “horizontal collectivism” and “vertical collectivism” to distinguish between the “totalitarian collectivist” and the “freedom minded” collectivist. All these tomes, books, essays, and treatise are nothing more tha