collectivism

is a simple if false argument based on immediate emotion. Individualism is based on a more subtle and sophisticated, indirect rational argument.

The argument for collectivism is simple if false... it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated... it is an indirect rational argument. And the emotional faculties are more highly developed in most men than the rational, paradoxically or especially even in those who regard themselves as intellectuals. Milton Friedman

is appealing to intellectuals because it has a simplistic answer for every problem: Pass a law and do something about it.

I think a major reason why intellectuals tend to move towards collectivism is that the collectivist answer is a simple one. If there's something wrong, pass a law and do something about it. Milton Friedman

is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of.

...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough - that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of.

collectivism, n.All

collectivism