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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
collectivism
noun
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▪ A tradition implies continuity, and the historical origins of collectivism have been traced in a variety of ways.
▪ But collectivism can come in many forms.
▪ For Oakeshott, modern collectivism is not to be traced to Hobbesian authoritarianism.
▪ Linked to egalitarianism and associated with many of the same writers and thinkers has been the drift to collectivism.
▪ Modernity, then, is incurably materialistic but it can look towards either collectivism or individualism.
▪ There is developed a keen and sensitive collectivism of emotion, of thought, and of will-power.
▪ Thus collectivism has historical roots in religious or intellectual ideals, and in communal social practices.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collectivism

Collectivism \Col*lect"iv*ism\, n. [Cf. F. collectivisme.] (Polit. Econ.) The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism.
--W. G. Summer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
collectivism

1880, in socialist theory, from collective + -ism. Related: Collectivist (1882 as both noun and adjective); collectivization (1890).

Wiktionary
collectivism

n. An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the people collectively

WordNet
collectivism

  1. n. Soviet communism [syn: Bolshevism, sovietism]

  2. a political theory that the people should own the means of production

Wikipedia
Collectivism

Collectivism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, or social outlook that emphasizes the significance of groups—their identities, goals, rights, and outcomes. It is also about analyzing problems in the interest of a group. Collectivism is a basic cultural element that exists as the reverse of individualism (in the same way high context culture exists as the reverse of low context culture), and in some cases stresses the priority of group goals over individual goals and the importance of cohesion within social groups (such as an ingroup, in whichever specific context it is defined).

Collectivists usually focus on community, society, or nation. It is used and has been used as an element in many different and diverse types of government and political, economic and educational philosophies throughout history and all human societies in practice contain elements of both individualism and collectivism.

Collectivism can be divided into horizontal collectivism and vertical collectivism. Horizontal collectivism stresses collective decision-making among relatively equal individuals, and is thus usually based on decentralization. Vertical collectivism is based on hierarchical structures of power and on moral and cultural conformity, and is therefore based on centralization. A cooperative enterprise would be an example of horizontal collectivism, whereas a military hierarchy would be an example of vertical collectivism.

Usage examples of "collectivism".

Everywhere collectivism, committeeism, collaborationism is oozing over us.

Basically, as he sees and points out, what we have got to do is to put our own house in order -- to oppose a humaner, freer form of collectivism to the purge-and-censorship variety.

Socialism, communism, collectivism, parliamentarism,--all these have one and the same end: to put men on an equality.

The UN collectivists had their counterparts, advocates of a parallel variety of collectivism, mostly among American academics, including those practicing archaeology, a field obscure enough that they could get away with practically anything they wished, long before anyone outside the field even took notice.

The more people's interests are comingled and confused, as in collectivism, the more they will be stepping on each other's toes.