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.
Rejecting individualism doesn’t negate the existence of individuals, with their own needs and agency. Rejecting individualism simply rejects an incorrect worldview, one which ignores material conditions and the inherent and irreplaceable social conditions of human life and development. Individualism is just an existential philosophy made up to fit in with the socioeconomic myths of liberalism and make liberalism seem closer to human nature.