The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collectivist \Col*lect"iv*ist\, collectivistic \col*lec`tiv*is"tic\a.
Relating to, characteristic of, or advocating, collectivism.
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operating under collectivist principles.
Note: [Narrower terms: socialistic (vs. capitalistic), socialist; communistic]
Syn: collectivized, state-controlled.
collectivized \col*lec"tiv*ized\ a. brought under collective ownership and operating under collectivist principles; -- used especially of organizations operating under the ownership by the state.
Note: [Narrower terms: socialistic (vs. capitalistic), socialist; communistic]
Syn: collective, collectivised, state-controlled.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Characteristic of communism 2 (context zoology English) Living or having their nests in common.
WordNet
adj. relating to or marked by communism; "Communist Party"; "communist governments"; "communistic propaganda" [syn: communist]
Usage examples of "communistic".
Strange to say, Bax found even the most radical party, that of the communistic Anabaptists, retrograde, with its program of return to a golden age of gild and common land.
When the French explorers entered it, it was a valley of aboriginal, anarchic individualism, with little movable spots of barbaric communistic timocracy, as Plato would doubtless have classified those migratory, predatory kingdoms of the hundreds of red kings, contemporary with King Donnacona, whom Cartier found on the St.
His works greatly influenced Peter Verigin, leader of the Dukhobors, who shortly after 1900 left Russia and settled in Canada in order to find a more hospitable environment for their communistic community, and to escape the necessity for military service.
Compared with the older writers Bellamy and Morris have a vivid sense of individual separation, and their departure from the old homogeneity is sufficiently marked to justify a doubt whether there will be any more thoroughly communistic Utopias for ever.
Their society’s all based on maximizing choice for the individual, which is why they’re communistic.
What the Democratic Land Union activists failed to appreciate was that they were free to leave for their damned Communistic workers’ paradise as soon as the workshy little buggers earned enough cash to pay their passage.