communalism
Americannoun
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a theory or system of government according to which each commune is virtually an independent state and the nation is merely a federation of such states.
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the principles or practices of communal ownership.
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strong allegiance to one's own ethnic group rather than to society as a whole.
noun
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a system or theory of government in which the state is seen as a loose federation of self-governing communities
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an electoral system in which ethnic groups vote separately for their own representatives
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loyalty to the interests of one's own ethnic group rather than to society as a whole
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the practice or advocacy of communal living or ownership
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And while there are certainly also toxic forms of communalism, I more often see my clients blaming themselves for struggling to connect and needing to connect at all.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2024
The practice of polygamy is the best known of these, but the church also experimented with economic communalism for decades.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2022
Professor Catherine Liu, who recently taught a class at the University of California at Irvine on the history of selfies, likens young people and selfie-taking to the communalism movement of the 1960s.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2019
“Reviewers shouldn’t be recommendation machines,” Silverman added, “yet we have settled for that role, in part because the solicitous communalism of Twitter encourages it.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2012
Although the passage to modern forms begins thus early, traces of the original communalism may be found everywhere, even in the eighteenth century.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
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