Collectivism has nothing to do with any "benefit" to the "collective", and never has.
It is simply a rhetorical mechanism to bamboozle useful idiots into empowering a bolshevik and/or fascist elite to benefit themselves at the expense of everyone else, while pretending they are serving some "common good" or another, all of which are utter nonsense.
If you live in a society where the State robs Peter to give to Paula, after taking a nice cut, you live in a collectivist society.
Seriously?
Collectivism has nothing to do with any "benefit" to the "collective", and never has.
It is simply a rhetorical mechanism to bamboozle useful idiots into empowering a bolshevik and/or fascist elite to benefit themselves at the expense of everyone else, while pretending they are serving some "common good" or another, all of which are utter nonsense.
If you live in a society where the State robs Peter to give to Paula, after taking a nice cut, you live in a collectivist society.