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/kəlˈɛktɪvɪst/ Listen

noun

Collectivist n. An advocate of collectivism.

adjective

collectivistic, Collectivist adj.

Relating to, characteristic of, or advocating, collectivism.

Operating under collectivist principles. Note: (Narrower terms: socialistic (vs. capitalistic), socialist; communistic)

Synonyms: collectivized, state-controlled.

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Etymology of 'Collectivist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Collectivist" Quotes from Famous Books

... for existence assures "the survival of the best, the victory of the fittest," and this results in an aristocratic hierarchic gradation of selected individuals—a continuous progress—instead of the democratic, collectivist leveling of socialism. ...

— Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) • Enrico Ferri

... sections of the International were among the largest and most numerous in Europe. At the time of the congress of Cordova, which assembled at the close of the year 1872, three hundred and thirty-one sections with over twenty-five thousand members expressed themselves in favor of "anarchist and collectivist" principles. The trade unions were very active, and they formed the basis of the Spanish movement. They had numerous organs of propaganda, and the general unrest, both political and economic, led for a time to an extraordinary development in ...

— Violence and the Labor Movement • Robert Hunter

... sell himself for a mess of pottage and is consequently deprived of the guidance of his own life and the direction of his own labour." Socialist opinion abroad, it says, "has taken shape in two distinct schools, Collectivist and Anarchist. English Socialism is not yet Anarchist or Collectivist, not yet definite enough in point of policy to be classified. There is a mass of Socialist feeling not yet conscious of itself as Socialism. ...

— The History of the Fabian Society • Edward R. Pease

... the European theorists, and differing widely from that practised by the New Zealanders, are built up institutions, which have given proof, wherever started, of their power of resistance to human weaknesses. The Mormon colonies, fundamentally collectivist, like the sect from which they originally sprang, still bear the imprint given to them by the initiators of the movement. Each one becomes industrially and commercially autonomous, but all are firmly held together in a common brotherhood by the ties of religion. The Big Horn Mormons, although ...

— Modern Saints and Seers • Jean Finot