How Collectivism Destroys Everyone Share Trending Collectivism coercively takes property from persons of higher levels of wealth and redistributes it to those of lower levels of wealth. This practice must also exercise some level of totalitarian force as a central authority must decide how much to take and who receives it – otherwise the collectivist system cannot function. So, the first societal degradation is that, by design, some level of a central authority exercises totalitarian force. But a second societal degradation is that nearly all incentive is removed from individuals to excel, develop, and risk ideas which benefit themselves and society. This phenomenon creates a downward spiral of society to reach the lowest common denominator of individuals. If people are forced into being