Statists on “warm” – mystical – collectivism:
“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” — ZOHRAN MAMDANI
“The interests of the individual must be subordinated to the interests of the collective.” — MAO
“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” — MUSSOLINI
“The individual is nothing; the collective is everything.” — STALIN
And now from the “frigid” – rational – individualist:
“COLLECTIVISM holds that the INDIVIDUAL has NO RIGHTS, that his life and work belong to the group … and that the group may SACRIFICE him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of BRUTE FORCE—and STATISM has always been the political corollary of collectivism.” — AYN RAND, Virtue of Selfishness