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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

... 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

... needed." Once again he was in harmony with Liberal opinion, when he desired to widen the basis of the State by extending the suffrage in turn to the Artisans and the Labourers. In one respect at least he was in harmony rather with Collectivist Radicalism than with orthodox Liberalism, for he did not in the least dread the intervention of the State between employer and employed. He desired to strengthen Parliament, the supreme organ of the national will, by reforming the ...

— Matthew Arnold • G. W. E. Russell

... 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

... 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

... an exceptionally good chance. In short, I think the grocer with the stick is a figure we are far more likely to see than the Superman or the Samurai, or the True Model Employer, or the Perfect Fabian Official, or the citizen of the Collectivist State. And it is best for us to see the full ugliness of the transformation which is passing over our Society in some such abrupt and even grotesque image at the end of it. The beginnings of a decline, in every age of history, have always ...

— Utopia of Usurers and other Essays • G. K. Chesterton