What is closer to collectivism: Liberalism or conservatism?
In their true historical definition, conservatism, only by a narrow margin since Conservatives place rule of law and order over personal liberty, but they will argue that those are needed for personal liberty. I disagree and believe that personal sovereignty will reign. In today’s term, both liberalism and conservative are very collective in which they cater to the sheeple.
Depends on what you mean by Collectivism. If you mean Communism, Republicans are actually the ones who argue for it more. Karl Marx argued that the business sector and the government would get too cozy with each other, thus giving the businesses the power to screw the people and the government the money to do the same. So Marx argued that the people would have to rise up and overthrow the now corrupt government, install a new government made up of representatives of the people and who had term limits, and then we would have to remove all power from the central government. Which is precisely what Republicans insist we should be doing right now; though by “representatives of the people” they mean that we should install representatives of their beliefs even though those beliefs got seriously outvoted in the last election. In fact, Obama won by over 9.5 million votes in the popular vote and by over a 2-to-1 margin in the electoral college (365-173). However, it should be noted that Republi
