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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

collectivism Related Forms
col·lec′·tiv·ist noun, adjective col·lec′·tiv·is′·tic adjective
collectivism Synonyms

collectivism

n.

communalism, cooperation, communization; see communism, sharing, socialism.

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.