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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essay: ‘Self-Reliance’ This classic essay privileges the individual over the collective.
In 1841, American writer-philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) published “Self-Reliance,” placing the ingenuity of the individual above an unquestioning acquiescence to the collective.
It appeared just before The Communist Manifesto ennobled victimhood of one collective and victimizat…
