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The conflict between individualism and collectivism is unresolvable because.
{ 1 } - material goods cannot be shared among individuals by dividing them.
{ 2 } - the personal is the same as the private.
{ 3 } - for materialistic politics to favor the community is to sacrifice the person, and vice versa.
{ 4 } - selfish individualism is compatible only with socialism.
{ 5 } - for them community is not based on a sharing of material goods.
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The conflict between individualism and collectivism is unresolvable because.
{ 1 } - material goods cannot be shared among individuals by dividing them.
{ 2 } - the personal is the same as the private.
{ 3 } - for materialistic politics to favor the community is to sacrifice the person, and vice versa.
{ 4 } - selfish individualism is compatible only with socialism.
{ 5 } - for them community is not based on a sharing of material goods.
It is the fact that division is the only way that material goods can be shared for the materialistic philosophies of individualism and collectivism that leads to the conflict between them.
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The conflict between individualism and collectivism is unresolvable because.
{ 1 } - material goods cannot be shared among individuals by dividing them.
{ 2 } - the personal is the same as the private.
{ 3 } - for materialistic politics to favor the community is to sacrifice the person, and vice versa.
{ 4 } - selfish individualism is compatible only with socialism.
{ 5 } - for them community is not based on a sharing of material goods.
The personal and the private are not the same, because personhood is achieved only in community, but the confusion of the personal and the private leads to the conflict between individualism and collectivism.
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The conflict between individualism and collectivism is unresolvable because.
{ 1 } - material goods cannot be shared among individuals by dividing them.
{ 2 } - the personal is the same as the private.
{ 3 } - for materialistic politics to favor the community is to sacrifice the person, and vice versa.
{ 4 } - selfish individualism is compatible only with socialism.
{ 5 } - for them community is not based on a sharing of material goods.
See p. 14.
For materialism, goods that belong to the individual cannot belong to the collective, and vice versa.
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The conflict between individualism and collectivism is unresolvable because.
{ 1 } - material goods cannot be shared among individuals by dividing them.
{ 2 } - the personal is the same as the private.
{ 3 } - for materialistic politics to favor the community is to sacrifice the person, and vice versa.
{ 4 } - selfish individualism is compatible only with socialism.
{ 5 } - for them community is not based on a sharing of material goods.
Selfish individualism and socialism are the two political alternatives of materialism.
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The conflict between individualism and collectivism is unresolvable because.
{ 1 } - material goods cannot be shared among individuals by dividing them.
{ 2 } - the personal is the same as the private.
{ 3 } - for materialistic politics to favor the community is to sacrifice the person, and vice versa.
{ 4 } - selfish individualism is compatible only with socialism.
{ 5 } - for them community is not based on a sharing of material goods.
Individualism and collectivism are both materialistic philosophies, and for them the only community possible is a material sharing.
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