ABSTRACT
To listen to most pundits of solidarism, individualism is one "ism" that seemed to violate the spirit of the century. The model of community development, even in the hands of its best practitioners, tended toward predetermined ends and was sanctioned by socialism, fascism, and welfarism. Socialism only postpones a consideration of the role of the individual by urging the solution to basic material needs that begins and ends with the collective will. The distinction between the social and pathological on one side and the political and ideological on the other nonetheless persists in part because the criminal phenomenon accepts almost unqualifiedly the collective judgment of society. At the philosophical level, justifications of homicide are similar to those for genocide. What emerges in the medical literature under euthanasia emerges in the political literature under racial purity. The essence of modern genocidal systems is that collective death makes it possible to avoid issues.
