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/kəlˈɛktɪvˌɪzəm/ Listen

Collectivism

noun

Soviet communism. Synonyms: Bolshevism, sovietism.

A political theory that the people should own the means of production.

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... Anarchism aims at abolishing the present economic status and existing private ownership of most things; but while Collectivism would substitute ownership by everybody, and Anarchism ownership by nobody, Syndicalism aims at ownership by Organized Labor. It is thus a purely Trade Union reading of the economic doctrine and the class war preached by Socialism. It vehemently repudiates Parliamentary ...

— Proposed Roads To Freedom • Bertrand Russell

... proceeded from one of the workmen at his bench, a serious and socialistic person who occasionally lent him something to read: Foxe's "Book of Martyrs," "Mill on Liberty," Bellamy's "Looking Backward," at that time at the height of its popularity. And sometimes he would talk to Paul about collectivism and the new era that was coming when there would be no such words as rich and poor, because there would be no such classes as ...

— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke

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