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The left is supposed to be the side giving the story of collectivism and solidarity, and nationalism provides a story about that that’s a lot more appealing to a lot of people than anything the left has had to offer, and that’s unfortunate.
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Sean Illing, Vox, 7 July 2024
In fact, analysis by the international economists behind the G-SWA suggests that two-thirds of the variance between countries can be explained by their level of collectivism versus individualism.
—Beth Greenfield, Fortune Europe, 2 July 2024
To be sure, thorny complications can arise, but little attention has been given to the positive outcomes of this kind of collectivism when it’s applied to an unjust system.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 3 June 2024
As earlier anti-left writers such as Hayek insisted, any attempt to define the ends of life disconnected from the will of living beings is a form of collectivism, which in turn is the source of unfreedom and, worse, inhumanity.
—Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
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Sean Illing, Vox, 7 July 2024
In fact, analysis by the international economists behind the G-SWA suggests that two-thirds of the variance between countries can be explained by their level of collectivism versus individualism.
—Beth Greenfield, Fortune Europe, 2 July 2024
To be sure, thorny complications can arise, but little attention has been given to the positive outcomes of this kind of collectivism when it’s applied to an unjust system.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 3 June 2024
As earlier anti-left writers such as Hayek insisted, any attempt to define the ends of life disconnected from the will of living beings is a form of collectivism, which in turn is the source of unfreedom and, worse, inhumanity.
—Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
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Martinique’s contemporaneous Négritude movement made fruitful use of Surrealism alongside Marxism, colonial resistance, and an embrace of Blackness.Jack Denton, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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As purported truth-tellers seeking to advance society toward maximal gains, Great Men expose and combat political and existential threats, such as critical race theory and Marxism.Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
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Second, the refusal to see how profoundly distasteful so much of modern liberalism has become to so much of America.Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) created a renaissance of Black horror, tackling the tropes of Black people in the genre, and connecting America’s past with its present, revealing that white liberalism too often hid a core of racist ideals.Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
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In English class, some students might read Animal Farm as an allegory for Stalinism, while others see it as a story about talking animals.Russell Shaw, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024
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And sometimes, this language which is used by the authorities could be compared with the language of Stalinism, the situation of the late 1940s and early 1950s, in terms of rhetoric, the absurdity of this rhetoric, and the absurdity of repressions.Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 2024
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“Collectivism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collectivism. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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