Word: collectivist
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...hands of callow liberals, useful to communism. Unstated but implicit in such thinking was the assumption that communism was the major threat to human freedom, and that some sacrifices of freedom and comfort and safety were necessary to defeat the red menace. That which strengthened America, even if collectivist, could be rationalized as good; that which weakened America, even if fulfilling of individual freedom, was bad. Many Buckleyite conservatives held these beliefs, not necessarily as absolutely, but certainly as rules of thumb...
Beginning in 1961 clusters of Libertarians began breaking away from Buckley. Many saw themselves as American conservatives determined to preserve an individualist, revolutionary American Tradition; most of these saw Buckley as a transplanted European aristocrat whose brand of collectivist capitalism was a kind of feudalism and whose morality began with social norms instead of individual liberty...
THIS GIVES us a clue to the awesome power of the technocracy in our world. Rationalized in the jargon of industrial necessity and Objective Science, the technocracy transcends political ideology, even revolutionary ideology. It grows without check in all industrial societies-capitalist or collectivist, Roszak emphasizes-while its often disastrous breakdowns are blamed on this political faction by that one. Everywhere, the dominant motives are social integration and control. (E. g.: big business in America, now assured of fairly steady profits, seeks along with the government to "rationalize" -manipulate and control-the total economy of the country and, if possible...
...John Wayne kind of man ever perishes-the kind of hero who sees moral conflict in black and white terms and political conflict in terms of freedom or slavery-then all the evasions, half-truths and compromises of today's collectivist mentalities will not be sufficient to instill in mankind a passion for life. It is only by the grace of heroes that civilization continues...
...above all, in the American socialist vision of Eugene Victor Debs, socialism stood for equality, solidarity, cooperation, and the fulfillment of democracy at least as much as for the nationalization of the means of production. (Such a view) confuses socialism, which was and is a democratic program for a collectivist age, with collectivism itself." Communism, notes Harrington, propagandizes for the same confusion in order to exploit the appeal of socialist ideals. There is no reason for Ec 1 to engage in the same over-simplification. It would be as if Hitler's Germany were chosen as a model...