Individualism as the Other Side of Sociality

In the human society, there is nothing that can be produced by a single person, or even by an isolated group. Everybody depends on everybody, though this dependence may be rather indirect in some cases. Therefore, one can never say that something belongs to him/her just because it has been produced by him/her. Could it have been made without the instruments one gets from the others? - without the learning one receives from the society? - without the means of existence borrowed from aside? - without the positive or negative experience of millions of people, living and gone? - at least, without the very idea of making it coming from the tendencies of development formed in a collective way by all the representatives of the humanity?

The idea of property is logically weak, since everything assumes the existence of everybody, and everything one may have could only be given to him/her by the humanity as a whole - or even stronger, by the objective course of the universal development.

In the same way, nobody can claim him- or herself "self-made", and all one may achieve would only be achieved in the specific economic and social conditions, and essentially due to them.

See also: No waste!