cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2409929
Everytime I here individualism brought up by someone from Hexbear or Lemmygrad, it gets talked about as if it’s categorically bad and wrong. Why is that?
This goes against everything I’ve learned in the states, where we consider individualism a necessary part of being a responsible and moral person, whereas collectivism strips us of our humanity and turns us into subhuman insectoid creatures incapable of thought.
Individualism was constructed by the bourgeoisie as an ideal so that they could freely exploit wage labour. They successfully couched it up in an idea of “liberty” with the help of some really insincere philosophy and tied it to the idea of personal growth (in places, even spirituality itself).
But this was all so that they could utilise wage labour as atomic parts of their industrial mechanism whenever they chose to.