collectivism

Noun

Meaning

The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bolshevism sovietism septet concert cooperation socialism aristocracy communism marxism republicanism feudalism ascendancy teamwork autocracy absolutism
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Antonyms

individualism business democracy capitalism free enterprise competitive market
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Hypernyms

ideology communism political theory political orientation

Hyponyms

revisionism

Related terms

collectivist

Examples

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not. Gertrude Stein

But the reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. And the fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. Paul Ryan

I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism. William Ewart Gladstone

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. Ayn Rand

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse. Herbert Hoover

Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. Karl Hess

Close letter words and terms

collectivisation collectivise collectivised collectivist collectivist anarchism collectivist anarchist