collectivism

[kuh-lek-tuh-viz-uh m]

noun

the political principle of centralized social and economic control, especially of all means of production.

Origin of collectivism

1875–80; < French collectivisme; see collective, -ism

Related formscol·lec·tiv·ist, noun, adjectivecol·lec·tiv·is·tic, adjectivecol·lec·tiv·is·ti·cal·ly, adverbnon·col·lec·tiv·is·tic, adjectivepro·col·lec·tiv·ism, nounpro·col·lec·tiv·ist, adjective, nounpro·col·lec·tiv·is·tic, adjective

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Contemporary Examples of collectivist

Is it that collectivist cultures such as those in Asia lend themselves to this nature of group sexual crime?
The Psychology of Sex Slave Rings
Charlotte Lytton
August 31, 2014
O is for Obama, the architect, and Obamacare, his legacy: Brave New World or Collectivist Nightmare?
Health Care: A Critic's Index
Tunku Varadarajan
December 25, 2009

Historical Examples of collectivist

No man can be a collectivist alone or an individualist alone.
Liberalism and the Social Problem
Winston Spencer Churchill
The Bishop is not a Collectivist, but he has great sympathy with some of the aims of Socialism.
Outspoken Essays
William Ralph Inge
Substantially the same difficulties would confront the government in a collectivist organisation of industry.
Distributive Justice
John A. (John Augustine) Ryan
Nevertheless De Pæpe's Collectivist proposal was accepted by fifty-four (or fifty-three) votes to four.
Anarchism
E. V. Zenker
Yet the public advantages of collectivist activities in certain particular directions cannot for a moment be denied.
Twentieth Century Inventions
George Sutherland

British Dictionary definitions for collectivist

collectivism

noun

the principle of ownership of the means of production, by the state or the people

a social system based on this principle

Derived Formscollectivist, nouncollectivistic, adjective

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Word Origin and History for collectivist

collectivism

1880, in socialist theory, from collective + -ism. Related: Collectivist (1882 as both noun and adjective); collectivization (1890).