When I encounter a collectivist who places individualism in nominally necessary complete opposition to collectivism, I see the same thing that I see when I encounter a Christian who insists that morality is impossible without religion - a person whose own reason is limited, and who projects that limitation onto others.
The simple fact of the matter is that there’s no necessary conflict between the two - there’s absolutely no reason why a person who focuses first and foremost on their own autonomy could not or would not then conclude that their interests are best served by entering into and maintaining collective arrangements, and as a matter of fact, I think that’s the only path by which actual anarchism can ever be achieved - that any nominal anarchism that prioritizes and demands collectivism first and foremost is doomed to revert to authoritarianism.
When I encounter a collectivist who places individualism in nominally necessary complete opposition to collectivism, I see the same thing that I see when I encounter a Christian who insists that morality is impossible without religion - a person whose own reason is limited, and who projects that limitation onto others.
The simple fact of the matter is that there’s no necessary conflict between the two - there’s absolutely no reason why a person who focuses first and foremost on their own autonomy could not or would not then conclude that their interests are best served by entering into and maintaining collective arrangements, and as a matter of fact, I think that’s the only path by which actual anarchism can ever be achieved - that any nominal anarchism that prioritizes and demands collectivism first and foremost is doomed to revert to authoritarianism.