Collectivism, or “group-ism”, claims that your life and work belong to some collective or group. It holds that the collective may dispose of you in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems the good of the group in question. Depending on the version of collectivism, that group may be a nation, race, faith, class, gender, tribe, caste, gang, family, majority, minority, or some other permutation. Under collectivism, your individual rights are sacrificed for the alleged benefit of the group. Terms such as the “common good”, “public interest”, “will of the people”, “will of the majority,” or “minority interests” often are used to justify the subordination of the individual to the group.
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right 