Collectivism and totalitarianism are fundamentally different in essence.
Leader Kim Jong Il said that collectivism has nothing in common wit
The imperialists have blamed collectivism, the basis of socialism, as “totalitarianism” since it was born on the globe.
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“Totalitarianism” is a reactionary doctrine of the fascist rulers who sacrifice the working masses’ interests for their greedy interests under the pretext that an individual must subordinate to all.
In the past, notorious Hitler and Mussolini used totalitarianism as ideological tool to justify their fascist dictatorship. They obliterated elementary democratic freedom and rights of the working masses and exercised brutal tyrannical politics unprecedented in history while claiming that any labour movement or class struggle should not be allowed for the national or state totality under the slogan of deceptive “state socialism”.
Totality in “totalitarianism” does not mean the whole of the popular masses but a tiny handful of the privileged circle such as monopoly capitalists, big landlords, reactionary bureaucrats and warlords who take state power.
Collectivism is an ideology that respects not only the common interests of the collective but also the interests of all members who belong to the collective.
Collectivism is, in essence, that people share bitters and sweets while helping each other under the slogan of “One for all and all for one!” Collectivism does not neglect individual’s interests and creative initiative. What collectivism rejects is placing more stress on the interests of individuals than that of collective instead of the interests of individuals itself.
Therefore, blaming that collectivism is “totalitarianism” is an absurd sophism to consider that the most superior and progressive ideology is the same as the reactionary one of the fascist rulers.
