Individualism is sorta like an API in programming. You can do what you want with it! Wow. But you need a computer with which to access the API properly. And you need programming knowledge to use it. And if you want to go outside what the API makers planned for, you may just be stuck.

On top of this, the API is an abstraction. Underneath it is multiple layers of complexity: layers that required lots of organization and hierarchy and planning and meetings and capital to make them. Then more of that to maintain the systems over time. So what you see on the surface layer is the neat, flexible API, but you don't see how much is going into making it possible in the first place.

So individualism is sort of an abstraction. It's not the actual society as a whole. It is a field to graze in with fences around it. And the more the capitalists squeeze, the smaller the field gets, the more the soil turns ashen, and the harder it is to move and survive.

What commies want to do involves making the people more widely part of the hidden layers, empowering them in the process and better ensuring their needs are represented and get met. Their movement space becomes largely broader as a result, the soil more fertile, and the collective strength of so many knowledgeable people contributing to an ecosystem of shared benefit turns a confined and unstable field into an expansive and sustainable world.