Rand sought to provide an individualistic and moral defense of capitalism--not a practical and collectivist one.
Given the Net's collectivist past and regulators' unease with concentration, they haven't abandoned peering altogether.
Until that changes, Matsushita's new individualists are likely to retain a decidedly collectivist bent.
Generally, America is seen as an individualistic society, whereas Japan is quite collectivist.
But, for all that, Thatcher was probably the politician who took on the collectivist impulse with most conviction, against the bitterest opposition.
One is environmentalism, which often detests economics and tends to be collectivist.
It is Hegelian and organicist without being collectivist or statist.
Their last collectivist victory, 2-0 against France, brought to mind less the flashing flair of the matador, more the boa constrictor slowly crushing the air from its hapless victim.
Once friends as well as allies, the two modernised the Labour Party in the early 1990s, dragging it from its industrial, collectivist roots to the sunlit uplands of middle-class aspiration.
Tragically, both abject dependency and a general collectivist-statist trend have been building in America for most of the past century, after corrosive ideological premises were imported from Europe starting in the 1880s.
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This prescription sounds very close to the recommendations of America's top political scholar on Britain, Samuel Beer, in his recent keen affidavit for the Blair government in The Economist (February 7th), who lauds New Labour as a return to the social-liberal spirit of Lloyd George, after the long years in a collectivist wilderness.
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