Collectivism can usefully mean: 1. The error of equivocating between groups of people and their individual constituents, often because language fails to make the distinction clear, as in “We attacked Russia.” 2. Tribal instincts that drive the tendency to reify groups into beings of their own. 3. The incoherent political philosophies people fall into as a result of 1 and/or 2. We can definitely escape collectivism of semantic origin, though maybe not that of tribal origin. Still, fixing the language issues would help tremendously.