collectivism
/kəˈlɛktɪvɪz(ə)m
/noun [mass noun]
1The practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it: the Church has criticized the great emphasis placed on individualism rather than collectivism...
- Behind these lay another debate between equally traditional views of collectivism v. individual initiative and between atheistic materialism and the belief that the world was created by God.
- Social contract predicts a gradual movement from collectivism to individual liberty - it also regards self-respect as the very first primary social good.
- This will ultimately foster the spirit of individualism rather than collectivism in the youth.
1.1The ownership of land and the means of production by the people or the state, as a political principle or system: the Russian Revolution decided to alter the course of modernity towards collectivism...
- The Universal Declaration does not aim for complete equality and it certainly isn't compatible with a political system based on some form of coercive collectivism, or state socialism as it existed in Eastern Europe - quite the contrary.
- From Shachtman he inherited his signature theories of democratic Marxism and bureaucratic collectivism, as well as his socialist outrage at the communist perversion of socialism.
- Surely, such a scientific ‘double whammy’ rendered any concept of socialism, of collectivism, of a society based on co-operation and solidarity, a mere pipe-dream?