#collectivism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #collectivism, aggregated by home.social.
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How Sweden became a country of big-state libertarians.
Few ideological causes ever united Bernie Sanders, an American politician so left-wing he could run for office as a European centrist, and Charlie Kirk, a Trumpian firebrand.
A rare point of agreement among them, oddly, was the appeal of Sweden.
#Sweden #Politics #BernieSanders #CharlieKirk #Individualism #Collectivism
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And here’s one for the thoughts and prayers crowd. Brigham Young quoted when he learned the severely delayed handcart company that experienced harsh winter weather conditions in Wyoming had arrived in Salt Lake on November 30, 1856:
“The afternoon meeting will be omitted, for I wish the sisters to go home and prepare to give those who have just arrived a mouthful of something to eat, and to wash them and nurse them up. ... Were I in the situation of those persons who have just come in, ... I would give more for a dish of pudding and milk or a baked potato and salt,... than I would for all your prayers, though you were to stay there all afternoon and pray. Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.”
This is a thread of me quoting a book on the economic history of the Latter-day Saints. See OP for context.
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Continuing to quote this book. See OP for context.
“The church also attempted to prevent, so far as possible, the exploitation of its members who were in need. Brigham Young reported that a man was stopped by his bishop from building a house because ‘he got first rate mechanics to work for five pounds of flour a day’; which was considered to be too little pay. ‘The bishop told him that he could not build a house in his ward upon any such principle.’”
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Maybe I’ll just keep sharing quotes from this excellent book in this thread. See OP for context.
“Each person with surplus was asked to turn it over to his bishop to be divided among the needy. Vigorous preaching and strong moral suasion were applied to insure the success of this voluntary share-the-surplus program.”
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In reading the Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints I can’t help but note the stark contrast between the early church and the attitudes of most American church members today. Collectivism and cooperation were what allowed the church to thrive in the Great Basin and many of these concepts are enshrined as cannon in the Doctrine & Covenants.
Wise environmental stewardship was also an important consideration.
“Regulations were adopted with respect to the conservation of wood and timber: No person was allowed to build with logs without permission; no person was entitled to cut more than he could use quickly; and only dead timber could be used as fuel.”
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The polycrisis we're living through can be chalked up to the simple fact that TESCREALists have never been able to understand the Human Instrumentality Project.
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Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.- Will Rogers
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From a social science perspective, the key error of nationalism and racism is to prioritise one people's history over another's. Each individual and each society evolved within its own context, and all historical contexts are equally valid, understandable, and worthy of respect.
#socialscience #nationalism #racism #history #context #evolution #validity #understanding #respect #dei #diversity #equality #inclusion #ignorance #individualism #collectivism
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If we can get away with vile hostility toward a people, who inevitably share *at least* 99% of our genetic material, then why should we *not* condone murdering black and indigenous peoples, or for that matter any other arbitrarily defined ethnic group? "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil..." https://reason.com/2026/06/01/surging-antisemitism-threatens-jews-and-america/
#antisemitism #authoritarianism #bigotry #collectivism #evil #genocide #illiberalism #racism #totalitarianism #USPol #USPolitics -
Turning the Page on Corporate Bookselling
Radical booksellers create democratically governed spaces where the public is encouraged to build movements, rather than merely participate in the retail economy.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/cooperative-bookstores-big-idea-collective-sustainability
#politics #books #co_ops #collectivism #activism #sustainability
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@[email protected] Some of the same impulses that were captured by the socialist movement more than 100 years ago, are indeed today being captured by cryptocurrency and other decentralised cypherpunk projects.
However, the baseline of collectivist impulses in society has also radically decreased with all this time, resulting in a very different moral basis being applied for validating the goals of such projects. 🤔
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How do we align the interests of the individual and the collective? We look at examples from history of leaders and thinkers that did just that in the 3rd episode of our series on The Alignment Problem No One is Talking About #Collectivism #Aristotle #Kendi #Mill #JohnStuartMill #JohnKey #Nixon
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#RenéeGood is dead. An #ICE agent shot her three times through her car window in #Minneapolis. Video shows the agent had time to step away—instead he drew his weapon and fired. This wasn’t self-defense. It was execution.
Philosopher Harry Binswanger traces the philosophical chain: https://hbletter.com/trumps-gestapo-is-now-murdering-protestors/
ICE exists because we philosophically and politically destroyed the concept of #IndividualRights.#Bentham called #rights “nonsense upon stilts” 20 years after #Kant. That became settled doctrine. Without a defensible theory of rights grounded in reality, we got the #Progressive movement’s #collectivism, then the xenophobia that built ICE, and now we have federal agents executing protesters in the street.
ICE has no legitimate function—it exists to grab and deport people, operating with arbitrary force. "The nature of an action follows from the nature of the entity that acts.” ICE's nature is thuggery wrapped in the language of #LawEnforcement.
But there’s also a commercial-political chain that made this possible: government agencies contract with private #surveillance companies to bypass #FourthAmendment protections. What the government can’t collect directly, it purchases from #DataBrokers and information services.
The technical infrastructure—databases, APIs, real-time intelligence platforms—gets built by engineers who think they're just solving technical problems. That infrastructure feeds into operations that put agents on Minneapolis streets with intelligence they couldn’t legally gather themselves.
This didn't have to happen.
Rights theory didn't have to lose to #utilitarianism and Kantian duty. We didn’t have to allow commercial surveillance to become a Fourth Amendment bypass. But we did, and now 37-year-old Renée Good is dead because an agent felt empowered to approach her car, try her door handle, and shoot when she tried to leave.
The horror isn’t just that Renée Good died. It’s that her death was philosophically, politically, and technically inevitable once we abandoned individual rights and built the infrastructure to enforce #collectivist #immigration policy at scale.
#ReneeGood #philosophy #politics #USpol #USpolitics #SurveillanceState #SurveillanceCapitalism
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https://jacobin.com/2026/01/zohran-mamdani-icollectivism-rugged-individualism-inauguration-speech/
"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism." - #zohranmamdani
Message echoed in "A New Faith" by Kaija, the mayor of Sequoia in the final chapter.
https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#bookstodon #books #climatefiction #hopepunk #adaptation #migration #collectivism #mystery #thriller
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#agriculture #animism #apocrypha #astrology #bible #collectivism #civilization #christianity #culture #cosmology #cosmos #earthmother #esotericism #individualism #judaism #knowledge #materialism #monism #monotheism #motherearth #mothergoddess #nephilim #neuroscience #neuropsychology #pantheism #philosophy #poetry #polytheism #psychology #religion #secretsociety #spiritualism #spirituality #symbolism #theism #theology #society
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Why can't the argument be:
- Less about #individualism versus #collectivism, and
- More about seeing both as part of a spectrum, whereWe understand that either can be toxic and destructive when taken to an extreme, weaponised to benefit a few.
To explore that the answer may not be any rigid one position, anywhere on the spectrum (or plane involving other points), thus to study both (or all) positions instructively to help find a balance that flows between the two?
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With the recent #tariffs news, it’s a good time to revisit Harry Binswanger’s 2024 essay, “’Buy American’ Is Un-American”: https://newideal.aynrand.org/buy-american-is-un-american/
Originally delivered as a speech in 1987, it highlights just how long this flawed concept has persisted.
Economic #nationalism goes against America’s fundamental values of #individualism, #FreeTrade, and rational self-interest. Choosing products based solely on their country-of-origin fosters #collectivism and #xenophobia, not true #patriotism.
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Berkeley researcher proposes collectivist approach to artificial intelligence development: Digital marketing could benefit from new economic perspective that prioritizes social welfare over individual systems. https://ppc.land/berkeley-researcher-proposes-collectivist-approach-to-artificial-intelligence-development/ #ArtificialIntelligence #Collectivism #SocialWelfare #DigitalMarketing #EconomicPerspective
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The #NuclearFamily ("#individualism")
killed
the #TraditionalFamily (#collectivism).
I'm sick and tired
of pretending otherwise.#consetvatives , #liberals, #nationalists, #fascists, you screwed THE ENTIRE WORLD and don't even know it's your fault.
Bury your heads in the sand no more, or at the very least stop pretending liberals are #leftwing. Here's a hint: #liberalism is RIGHT FROM #CENTER.
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What you otter do :) Yes... and no, I won't apologize. ¡VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN!
#Unionize #Organize #Protest #Democracy #Liberty #Freedom #collectivism #Left
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As usual, those who can’t win in the commercial #marketplace resort to riding the coattails of the one ideological stance that’s already won (by default): #collectivism and its companion, #government force.