Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. 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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the people collectively
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Polit. Econ.) The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a political theory that the people should own the means of production
- n. Soviet communism
Etymologies
- collective + -ism (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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
“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
“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
“From collectivism to collectivism is the real tragedy of these times.”
“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
“The word “fascism” comes from the notion of collectivism (ie, sticks bundled together being harder to break).”
“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
“The common good over the individual good is called collectivism and that is socialism.”
“When oil companies make a profit (as is the goal of every business), and their taxes are forcibly raised and the money redistributed (aka collectivism) to private citizens, it is outright thievery and is everything Ayn Rand and Garet Garret warned us about.”
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Words describing a future that may or may not be entirely grounded in reality. Not to be used for predictive purposes. I do not have the gift of premonition. In fact, all these ideas come from popu...
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List of ISMs
theism, monotheism, premillennialism, postmillennialism, millennialism, calvinism, arminianism, skepticism, reductionism, mysticism, pantheism, rationalism and 48 more...
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2012
heuristic, epistemic, collectivism, positivism, fatidic, fiduciary, subsidiary, cataphatic, apophatic
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