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.
Americans, by contrast at least in the maturity of old age have more intergroup wisdom than the purportedly collectivist Japanese.
Language can indeed be magnificent, but to get caught in the gooey mess of dreamy collectivist metaphors is embarrassing.
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Yet money continued to flow to collectivist and dictatorial governments, including for inefficient industrial enterprises and social development projects.
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Generally, America is seen as an individualistic society, whereas Japan is quite collectivist.
In Vietnam, although collectivist economics have gone, the government remains collective and consensual.
He persuaded a disparate band of enthusiasts free-marketers and social conservatives, anti-communists and American traditionalists to band together against the liberal-collectivist foe.
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.
Government is on autopilot, becoming even more progressive and collectivist in nature.
Collectivist institutions income cooperatives and the like will emerge to smooth out some of the natural income volatility for older individuals.
Rand was the single most uncompromising critic of the collectivist tide that swept across the capitalist world in the wake of the Depression.
They warn that continuing to allow our socialist president to take us down the European path will lead to us to become the American collectivist society.
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Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state.
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It is Hegelian and organicist without being collectivist or statist.
People understand the wrongness of collectivist thinking in other cases.
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.
Junking the collectivist approach, ridding myself of the idea that the lives of the few can be sacrificed to the lives of the many, I found the issue almost settled itself.
Conservative polemicists suggest that Mr Obama, by stepping in to rescue the banks and industrial behemoths such as General Motors, is ushering in the collectivist dystopia that Rand gave warning against.
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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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Maybe the smartphone has had this impact in societies with a more collectivist orientation, but in hyper-individualistic America, the smartphone and other mobile devices led by the iPhone are the tools of self absorption.
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Both regimes, of course, were as thoroughly collectivist as the fasces symbol implies: men were lashed together, bound by the state into a common purpose, with the threating blade to keep them in line.
This strategy was used to great effect in the national socialist movements of the 20th century, where Jews were specifically targeted as "elitist" to subject them to the anger and resentment of collectivist masses.
For years, some free market economists and their ilk have attacked carbon mitigation, but this is perhaps because it was being pushed via collectivist mandated quotas, which remind some of old-style Soviet centralized planning.
Like other Chinese food companies, Shuanghui gets its supplies mostly from small farms a relic of China's collectivist past following the 1949 Communist takeover, but one that has figured into a number of Chinese food-safety scandals.
This uneasy tension is exacerbated by the perceived intention of American liberals to reunite the Western world by making America more like contemporary Europe more top-down, more bureaucratic, more official, more collectivist, more rationalist.
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