Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The principles or system of ownership and control of the means of production and distribution by the people collectively, usually under the supervision of a government.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The socialistic theory or principle of centralization of all directive social and industrial power, especially of control of the means of production, in the people collectively, or the state: the opposite of
individualism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Polit. Econ.) The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
economic system in which the means ofproduction anddistribution areowned andcontrolled by thepeople collectively
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a political theory that the people should own the means of production
- noun Soviet communism
Etymologies
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Examples
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And yes, all liberals are the same, hence the term collectivism as conservatives are not all the same, hence the term individualism "
unknown title 2009
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Heritage, which recently compared green economic reform to Nazi-Soviet collectivism, is continuing its slide into irrelevance.
Wonk Room » Heritage Promotes ‘Completely Untrue’ Attack On Green Jobs 2009
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And yes, I do want a collectivist society - the idea of collectivism is a good thing, not a bad thing.
Matthew Yglesias » Europe: A Continent Full of Lovely Countries 2009
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Though your argument that collectivism is based on the herd mentality is not completely supported by nature.
I Heart Steven Pinker, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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From collectivism to collectivism is the real tragedy of these times.
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Notwithstanding these advantages of definiteness, the word collectivism has not been widely employed, even in France and Belgium; nor does it promise to supplant the older term in the future.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The word “fascism” comes from the notion of collectivism (ie, sticks bundled together being harder to break).
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The word “fascism” comes from the notion of collectivism (ie, sticks bundled together being harder to break).
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The word “fascism” comes from the notion of collectivism (ie, sticks bundled together being harder to break).
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It's really only enough time to dip our feet in collectivism.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: February 2006 Archives 2006
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