[lbo-talk] Individualism (Pomo Prince)

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Tue Dec 9 13:32:03 PST 2003


I'm not arguing that
> arranged marriages (or collectivist values in general)
> are better in some universal sense; I'm just saying that
> people have lived happy lives in stable human societies
> without glorifying individuality the way we do.
>
> Miles

^^^^^^^

CB: Yea, "individualism" is too polluted by bourgeois usage. Ronald Reagan said "We hold the sacredness of the individual". Yea sure, but they mess over billions of individuals.

I think the left should adopt a new term like "personality", just to distinguish ourselves from the bourgeois usage. We are for the full and all around development of personality.



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