[jmacusa]

Goethe spoke of his fellow Germans as ‘’Noble in the individual and wretched in the collective’’.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"Noble in the individual and wretched in the collective"

A bit late of a reply, but one of the aspects of socialism that some find appealing is the transfer of personal responsibility to the collective. People will do in groups what they would never do by themselves, thinking their conscious is clear.