communalism
noun
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.
communalist
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a word derived from
communalism.
Example Sentences
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The most recent manifestation of the communalist impulse is the postvaccine nostalgia for the pandemic pod.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
She had plans to go to Black Mountain College in Asheville, N.C., a communalist school where, basically, everyone studied everything — science, literature, art — and pitched in on daily chores.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2017
It pitted the more communalist, democratic and industrialized Northern vision of the American future against the hierarchical, aristocratic, agrarian Southern one.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2012
He’s neither the eager entrepreneur of the 1920s nor the popular-front communalist of the early Depression, but a self-defined outsider whose like would not be seen again until the Beat Generation of the 1950s.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2010
It remained communalist only; it merely asserted the rights of the Commune to its full autonomy.
From The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince
