It is time that we take the word liberal away from the left. The word that is identified with liberty and freedom has been hijacked by those who loath the very concepts that liberty implies. Words such as liberal, socialist and communist have become archaic, and have lost their true meanings. We should choose a new fitting and more descriptive word that better illustrates what leftists are really all about.
Liberal theory will always fail because it denies the very nature of human beings. We are individuals and will always live and act in our own self interests. To the liberal the only way to change man's instinct for self preservation is to destroy man's individual identity.
The way to achieve this, the collectivist believes is to destroy and subvert the very things that we associate with individuality and replace it with a group identity. Business, money, family, identity, liberty, responsibility, spirituality etc. must be altered from individual concepts into the realm of the collective. The mechanism for this is ever increasing reliance on the government. The more individuals that are subject to government the more individuality is stifled. This causes man to lose their ability to take care of their own self preservation and rely wholly on the collective for their needs.
History has proven that collectivism only brings about ruin and misery, but this does not stop or even make the collectivists think twice about the validity of their ideas. They reason that the cause of past failures is the wrong people were in charge, or that outside forces sabotaged their efforts.
In the collectivists mind their theories are the destiny of mankind and it is only a matter of time before they can completely chip away man’s individual nature and evolve into a truly collective being. Once this is achieved Utopia will finally be realized.
Interestingly militant Islam has the same goal but instead of government as the medium to destroy individualism they use religion. No wonder the left and militant Islam seem to be in league with each other, they are merely two sides of the same collectivist coin.