The Wars, and Governments that have brought about the most Human Suffering, in the last century, have all been collectivist in nature. Wars have been brought about by and started by one countries collective action against another country, or countries. Like World War II; with the Nationalist Socialist Party of Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, as the Supreme Chancellor, the Nazis did what they did, killing, or murdering millions of people, supposedly for the good of Germany, and the superior German race. For the good of Germany, is a collectivist argument, and for the good of the German race, is also a collectivist argument. Any racist argument, or any argument that argues for the good or superiority, of any particular race, or group of people, is a collectivist argument.

What Stalin did in the old Soviet Union, when he killed or politically murdered millions of his own people, in societal purges, was done in the name of communism or socialism, and also was said to be done for the good of the Soviet Socialist State, or collectivism.  The only reason why the socialist left vilifies Hitler and not Stalin is because only racism is evil to the left, and killing millions of your own people, because they disagreed with you politically, and was said to have been done for the good of the collective, is not racism, and therefore not evil, and Stalin was a socialist.  The socialist left has also been able to insert Hitler's Nationalist Socialist Party of Germany, or Nazis on the political right, and Stalin is on the political left.

 Collectivism and collectivist thinking have brought about totalitarianism, in countries like Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and China, they were, and China still is, a virtual police state. This happened because of the Corrupting Nature of collectivized, centralized, and concentrated Power and Authority. Because, "Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely." No leader, or ruler in Nazi Germany, the old Soviet Union and China has ever given up any of their power, or authority, or decision making power over the people, to the people, except Mikhail Gorbachev, and when power was given back to the people, the Soviet Union fell a part and died.  Only the Ruling Elite, or leaders in the Government seemed to know what was best for the Collective, or they were the only ones that had any input into what was best for the Collective.  To my way of thinking, China and the old Soviet Union possessed the ultimate form of Fascism, with a State run Economy, they both have or had a ruling-class and a working-class and the ruling-class is or was the State, or Ruling Elite, or the Leaders of the Government. 

In China they executed, and apparently still do execute, anyone who sells drugs, buys drugs, or uses drugs.  The Communist government of China, under Chairman Mao, let millions of people die of starvation because it would not ask for outside help, and apparently could not admit their form of communism was not working perfectly, and feeding all its people. Reeducation camps were everywhere, and they simply executed a great many political prisoners, who did not agree with them, or think the way they wanted them to, not only in China, but also in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Many died in these countries because they did not agree with the Government, and because they were made scapegoats for bad economies, or because of their ethnic origin.

 The Korean War and the Vietnam War were both started by Communist collectivist aggression, and we decided to fight against them. Also many religious wars have started over collectivist religious thinking, one collective religion against another collective religion.  All wars are fought collectively, for the good or protection of the Collective State, by a Collective Army.

Individualism does not start Wars; except perhaps the American Revolution. We fight against Tyranny and for Liberty and freedom. Individualism gives us equal rights, equal laws, equal justice, equal liberty and freedom, and collectivism gives us equal tyranny. Individualism gives us the power and freedom to choose as individuals, collectivism takes all our power and freedom to choose away from us as individuals, and gives it to the collective, and we get tyranny, with the corrupting nature of power.

We will never be free from our fight for liberty, because too many people do not want the responsibility of freedom, and there will always be people who would gladly take that responsibility away from them, for the power it brings.  To believe in freedom and liberty, we have to believe in equal Rights, equal Laws, equal Justice, and equal Freedom for everyone individually, or no one can be truly free. That was what America was supposed to be all about, not the collectivist corruption that it seems to now represent. Justice was supposed to be blind, not just to Race, but all forms of Social Prejudice, including rich and poor alike, where no one is above or below the law, and where everyone is treated equally as individuals under the law. We have lost what has made America great, to treat everyone equally as individuals, the smallest minority on earth; with equal rights and equal freedom for every individual, with Liberty and Justice for All.

We have to have the power and the Right, to be our own person, to choose our own way, to live our lives, in freedom and liberty. So we can be all that we can be, and the best that we can be, individual and free. We must be forever vigilant, to be free, and stay forever free, in the Freest Nation on Earth.

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Written by N. Scott Mills