[Objectivist]

Quote by: HelioPrime Yet would people from an eastern upbringing view that as a negative?

That is the difference between Western and Eastern civilization. There's a reason why the western world has dominated the world for a majority of world's history.

When raised in a non linear end result way of thinking the actions of the individual can seem of less importance that the whole group. A society can take on more worth than any single unit within it.

I agree that individuals working together by choice and without force and coercion, are more productive and successful. Laissez-faire capitalism is such a system.

Under communism however, individuals are sacrificed to the collective through force and coercion. Individuals are forced to support both the strong and the weak, the workers and the bums, the geniuses and the retards...

But realize that the strong can survive without the weak. The worker can survive without the bum. The genius can survive without the retard. But the weakling, the bum, and the retard cannot survive without the the strong, the worker, and the genius.

The world relies upon the producers to make the world a better place. Under communism, the producers are strangled and controlled. And instead of creating a utopia, the opposite happens: Starvation, oppression, and mass murder occur.

Even the view that individuals produce the results can be seen as the society they live in educates them and allows them to achieve things.

The society cannot force the individual to learn and to force his brain to function. The society cannot force the individual to achieve whatever he wants to achieve. Any achievement is produced by some individual that has the will and the determination to achieve.

Communism only comes into conflict when it runs into those raised in the belief that the single individual is the greatest unit of existence.

Communism fails only through the false premises and ideas that it advocates.