Given that socialism, for most of its followers if not its theorists originally, was a revolt against individualism as they understood and experienced it rather than or before being a thought through alternative to the prevailing social and economic system, I had some ideas for a discussion.
Do you consider socialism and individualism to be in actuality dichotomous? Or are they things which any "complete individual", "integrated self", "holistic personality", "mature being" or whatever way you choose to label it will experience in equal measure or at one time or another experience need of satisfaction? Do either correspond to either introversion or extroversion? If you believe that they are dichotomous, do you believe that either is representative of good or evil and that one should be indulged and the other denied? Why so?
Do you consider socialism and individualism to be in actuality dichotomous? Or are they things which any "complete individual", "integrated self", "holistic personality", "mature being" or whatever way you choose to label it will experience in equal measure or at one time or another experience need of satisfaction? Do either correspond to either introversion or extroversion? If you believe that they are dichotomous, do you believe that either is representative of good or evil and that one should be indulged and the other denied? Why so?