Collectivism

It is not mankind, the state, or the corporative unit that acts, but individual men and groups of men, and their valuations and their action are decisive, not those of abstract collectivities.

Epistemological Problems of Economics, p. 153

The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual’s will and moral self-determination.

The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, p. 106

Collectivism is a doctrine of war, intolerance, and persecution. If any of the collectivist creeds should succeed in its endeavors, all people but the great dictator would be deprived of their essential human quality. They would become mere soulless pawns in the hands of a monster.

Theory and History, p. 61

Society does not exist apart from the thoughts and actions of people. It does not have “interests” and does not aim at anything. The same is valid for all other collectives.

The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, p. 79

The collectivists idolize only the one true church, only the “great” nation . . . only the true state; everything else they condemn. For that reason all collectivists doctrines are harbingers of irreconcilable hatred and war to the death.

Epistemological Problems of Economics, p. 42

When the collectivist extols the state, what he means is not every state but only that regime of which he approves, no matter whether this legitimate state exists already or has to be created.

Theory and History, p. 254