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.
communalistic
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a word derived from
communalism.
Example Sentences
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Next year, Saga Press will publish Liu’s 624-page translation of Hao Jingfang’s novel “Vagabonds,” a meandering philosophical parable about an ideological rift between a communalistic human colony on Mars and an increasingly capitalistic Earth.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2019
This dominance of the communalistic type of social order has doubtless had an effect on the physical and psychic, including the brain, development of the people.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
