collectivism
pronunciation
How to pronounce collectivism in British English:
UK [kəˈlektɪvɪzəm]
How to pronounce collectivism in American English:
US [kəˈlɛktəˌvɪzəm]
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- Noun:
- Soviet communism
- a political theory that the people should own the means of production
Word Origin
- collectivism (n.)
- 1880, in socialist theory, from collective + -ism. Related: Collectivist (1882 as both noun and adjective); collectivization (1890).
Example
- 1. Also on the agenda was the significance of group harmony , collectivism and courtesy .
- 2. He travels on the margins of society to evade political persecution , and the horrors of collectivism in china 's past are often evoked .
- 3. Conservatives have always believed that once a nation goes communist it is irrevocably doomed - that collectivism , once adopted , is irreversible .
- 4. One obstacle is ideological : for all their economic pragmatism , many in the party still regard collectivism as a sacred principle .
- 5. He has abandoned economic collectivism and says he will support private investment and , with reservations , a trade agreement with the united states .