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'''Collectivism''' is the belief that an imagined welfare of a group takes precedence over individual rights and values.  Economic collectivism is generally preferred by [[liberals]], while many who call themselves [[conservatives]] are social collectivists.  [[Libertarians]] often prefer [[individualism]].

'''Collectivism''' is the belief that an imagined welfare of a group takes precedence over individual rights and values.  Economic collectivism is generally preferred by [[liberals]], while many who call themselves [[conservatives]] are social collectivists.  [[Libertarians]] typically prefer [[individualism]], generally accepted as the opposite of collectivism.

Collectivism thus is not to be confused with the fact that individual liberty allows, and love of others often enjoins, collective action. In other words, 1) civil society, beginning with the civil family, is not, by definition, [[parallel play]], but, rather, is a more-or-less informally coordinated balancing of complementary, and sometimes even conflicting, needs; whereas 2) collectivism is a consistent subsuming of the natural and civil rights of the individual, and thus of the family, to an unintelligently inflexible mere abstraction of those very rights.

Collectivism thus is not to be confused with the fact that individual liberty allows, and love of others often enjoins, collective action. In other words, 1) civil society, beginning with the civil family, is not, by definition, [[parallel play]], but, rather, is a more-or-less informally coordinated balancing of complementary, and sometimes even conflicting, needs; whereas 2) collectivism is a consistent subsuming of the natural and civil rights of the individual, and thus of the family, to an unintelligently inflexible mere abstraction of those very rights.