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A Russian psychologist tested a "non-literate" from East of the Ural mountains about 1929, not an illiterate where other people read, but a member of a group where literacy was unknown because of primitive living conditions. The shrink found that the answer to "are you a good person?" was, not to say what he did that was individually good, but that his social group considered him well integrated. (Using a conventional intelligence test like we've all taken, with 4 objects, "crowbar" (all metal), "hammer" [wood handled], "saw" [wood handled] and "piece of wood"-- where of us who have gone thru...

THE SOURCE OF RIGHTS By Frank Chodorov The axiom of what is often called “individualism” is that every person has certain inalienable rights. For example, individualism holds that property as such obviously has no rights; there is only the inherent right of a person to his honestly acquired property… The axiom of socialism is that the individual has no inherent rights. The privileges and the prerogatives that the individual enjoys are grants from society, acting through its management committee, the government. That is the condition the individual must accept for the benefit of becoming a member of society. Hence, the...