collectivism
collectivism
Definition
col·lec·tiv·ism (kə lek′tə viz′əm)
noun
the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution by the people collectively; socialism
Etymology: Fr collectivisme (c. 1880): see collective & -ism
col·lec′·tiv·ist noun, adjective
col·lec′·tiv·is′·tic adjective
collectivism
Synonyms
collectivism
Usage Examples
Converse of subject
- impress: There were the militant imperialists, deeply impressed by German collectivism.
Adjective modifier
- bureaucratic: The first task he gave me was to write a rebuttal of the theory of bureaucratic collectivism.
- evidential: Unfortunately, evidential collectivism is not the uniform style of Italian science and/or Australian science, nor even any single laboratory within those countries.
- voluntary: Voluntary collectivism is an ideal that will never happen, at least not for the next few hundred years.
- Marxist: The Church does not offer a 'third way ' between liberal capitalism and Marxist collectivism.
- German: There were the militant imperialists, deeply impressed by German collectivism.
- social: Never mind that the map of Europe is turning blue and that social democratic collectivism is in headlong retreat.
Noun used with modifier
- state: In the days when socialism stalked the land, we properly opposed state collectivism.
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