And the fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
This individualism has nothing in common with Obama's economic and foreign policy collectivism.
One obstacle is ideological: for all their economic pragmatism, many in the party still regard collectivism as a sacred principle.
This is the way our system is supposed to ensure that the natural tension between freedom and collectivism is sustained.
It reflects the Eastern culture of collectivism and believes as long as the country is strong people will be rightfully benefitted.
The challenge for the Japanese is to open up to individualism and more top-down leadership while retaining collectivism to some degree.
Americans must quickly restore our self-reliance before we drown under egalitarian collectivism.
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He travels on the margins of society to evade political persecution, and the horrors of collectivism in China's past are often evoked.
He has abandoned economic collectivism and says he will support private investment and, with reservations, a trade agreement with the United States.
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Which brings us to the central economic dogma of collectivism, the justification for coercive and punitive progressive taxation that Marx held essential: Redistribution.
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She lived to see laissez-faire triumph over collectivism and one of her leading acolytes, Alan Greenspan, appointed to the president's Council of Economic Advisers.
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Powell's comments are misused by Islamists because he did not make them concomitantly with comments denouncing the political ideology of Islamism and Muslim political collectivism.
Well, if our intrepid time traveler can organize tough Chicago neighborhoods, he can help this clan live up to its principles of collectivism and redistribution.
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The conservative package of collectivism and conformity, by contrast, works in an unstable environment where joint action, and thus obedience to their group, are at a premium.
Rand's entire project involved liberating the individual from the yoke of collectivism and creating the social, moral and political conditions in which he could live a fully actualized life.
It is also a warning of what lies at the end of the road for nations that substitute individualism with any form of collectivism, no matter what the motives.
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That early bout, however, was cruelly interrupted by what Mr Lindsey calls the industrial counter-revolution: an enthusiasm for collectivism, for national economic planning, and, in its most extreme cases, for communist economies.
Cloaking altruism, sacrifice, and collectivism by speaking in terms of optimizing the progress of the economy or the nation is a common tactic used to foist myriad rights-violating schemes on the population.
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Whereas Hayek drew on the price system as a solution to the problem of local knowledge, and old Diane drew on choice and accountability, new Diane sees local collectivism and democracy as the solution.
Collectivism violates the iron laws of human nature.
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To that end, of course, You Are Not a Gadget is a must-read for both the pro- and anti-open sourcers the world over, regardless of whether the tide of collectivism can be turned back or not.
Many of the liberalizations that occurred after the failures of collectivism in Latin America were very poorly done: many assets were transferred into the hands of politically connected elites, and these favored firms were often granted monopoly privileges.
And even now, though it feels like we're slipping beneath the waves of collectivism and state domination and socialism and human misery that we've seen in every corner of the globe and we've seen it starting to happen here, are we going to let this happen?
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