[
US
/kəˈɫɛktɪvɪst/
]
[ UK /kəlˈɛktɪvˌɪst/ ]
[ UK /kəlˈɛktɪvˌɪst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively
NOUN
- a person who belongs to the political left
How To Use collectivist In A Sentence
- Second, the problems with our existing educational system are symptoms of something bigger, the public goods problem inherent in collectivist arrangements. Preferring Ignorance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- Interpersonal relationships there are strongly influenced by the typically collectivist orientation of these cultures.
- This is a country that now thinks in purely collectivist terms. Times, Sunday Times
- Individualists and collectivists disagree over whether the Second Amendment grants individuals a right to firearm possession.
- Contrary to the myth, they were not a product of collectivist ideology.
- Socialist, rejected the Marxian in favour of Jevonsian economics, and devoted itself to the social education of the public by means of lectures, pamphlets and books, and to the spread of Collectivist ideas by the "permeation" of public bodies and political parties. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- This was the reality of the collectivist ethic in which each should be striving for all, not for himself and his own.
- Yeh described this orientation as “collectivistic,” because family and community took priority over the needs of the individual. The Truth About Grief
- An article in the April 5 issue reminds us how deeply ingrained collectivist habits of thought are in this country.
- Of course, as is widely known, the last twenty-five years have witnessed a renewed interest in collectivist analyses of liberal society ” though the term ˜collectivist™ is abjured in favor of ˜communitarian™. Liberalism