collectivism
[kuh-lek-tuh-viz-uh m]
- the political principle of centralized social and economic control, especially of all means of production.
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Origin of collectivism
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Examples from the Web for collectivist
Contemporary Examples
Is it that collectivist cultures such as those in Asia lend themselves to this nature of group sexual crime?
O is for Obama, the architect, and Obamacare, his legacy: Brave New World or Collectivist Nightmare?
Historical Examples
No man can be a collectivist alone or an individualist alone.
Liberalism and the Social ProblemWinston Spencer Churchill
The Bishop is not a Collectivist, but he has great sympathy with some of the aims of Socialism.
Outspoken EssaysWilliam Ralph Inge
Substantially the same difficulties would confront the government in a collectivist organisation of industry.
Distributive JusticeJohn A. (John Augustine) Ryan
Nevertheless De Pæpe's Collectivist proposal was accepted by fifty-four (or fifty-three) votes to four.
AnarchismE. V. Zenker
Yet the public advantages of collectivist activities in certain particular directions cannot for a moment be denied.
Twentieth Century InventionsGeorge Sutherland
collectivism
- the principle of ownership of the means of production, by the state or the people
- a social system based on this principle
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Word Origin and History for collectivist
collectivism
n.
1880, in socialist theory, from collective + -ism. Related: Collectivist (1882 as both noun and adjective); collectivization (1890).
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