That’s the title of an excellent Freeman column today by Professor Sanford Ikeda. His argument is that while collectivism is supposed to bring people together, it actually accomplishes the opposite. He writes, “collectivism forces togetherness on the masses and in so doing drives people apart who might otherwise have come together on their own.” Read the whole thing.
The coercive meddling by the state under the feel-good name of “collectivism” leads to innumerable costs, most of them hidden as Bastiat observed. Getting in the way of voluntary association is among them.
