I think this Roderic Day thread is relevant: https://x.com/RodericDay/status/1784207317187051909

The general discussion of “Individualism vs Collectivism” is expressed incoherently as just ideas apart from existing social-class relations. In essence, the debate is Idealism. What’s actually going on is that the petty bourgeoisie, a large section of society, have class-wide interests (making money off of their property/providing services/maintaining prices) that have to be expressed as an individual decisions. The price of milk goes down so each individual dairy farmer starts dumping their supply to force a scarcity, and because holding the supply would be an unacceptable individual cost. They compete with each other and anarchy of production forces them all into similar despotic behavior. That is, the petty bourgeoisie can’t seem to align their class interests, which are individualized interests as property owners/service providers, with organization (there are caveats). The proletariat, as workers forced to sell themselves to capitalists, are already put into collectivized work relations because as the means of production develop, co-dependency between workers increases. Proletarians’ labor is already collectivized, but is owned and constrained by individual bourgeois interests. The struggle for the proletariat to gain control over their individual interests is to express their collectivized behavior into the realm of property, to take off the individual who rides on their collective backs.

The petty bourgeoisie can only squabble (cartel, state intervention, Imperialism, dumping) over the contradiction between their class existence and their individual interests, while the proletariat can overcome this contradiction by collectivizing property, because their labor is already collectivized.