Collectivism/individualism is a true dichotomy and a false …

Collectivism/individualism is a true dichotomy and a false dichotomy simultaneously.
Everything depends on definitions.
It has been turned into a false one by collectivists pretending that any form of social organization is collectivism and that individualism means that there cannot be any form of cooperation, only Rambo-like atomized individuals in the wild.
This is, of course, absurd.
Collectivism implies a coercive structure that violates individual rights for a supposed "greater good" (evil) as its modus operandi.
Individualism, on the other hand, implies that the purpose of the structure, the entire meaning of social organization, is to protect individual rights. Individual rights and freedom ARE the greatest good.
Both Hitler and Stalin stated that the individual is nothing and the group is everything.
Individualism means social organization that protects individual rights.
Collectivism means social organization that violates individual rights for a supposed greater good that never comes. But it serves those in power.