I thought that it was mostly Ayn Rand / Austrian economists who used those terms so it’s odd to hear Adam Curtis make that an explicit part of his analysis.
I thought that it was mostly Ayn Rand / Austrian economists who used those terms so it’s odd to hear Adam Curtis make that an explicit part of his analysis.
For me, the job of liberalism and the capitalist mode of production is to completely blow away the old feudal relationships people had of mutual obligations. Liberalism destroys community, society, the proposed collective in deference to an individual liberal subject whose every action including his own body can be made into a commodity and create capital.
I see collectivism as belonging to the old feudalist world and individualism belonging to this new capitalist world. The world of socialism to come will be the dialectical synthesis of these ideas - it wasn't "good" to be a cog in a collective machine and it's not "good" to be an individual adrift on the winds of fate. We can take what is good from each and forge a new world.
Almost word for word what Adam Curtis said at the end of his interview on Chapo but he couldn’t be bothered to use the word “socialism” or “communism”