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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

... 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

... road to the Social Revolution. The steady and patient work of Socialist propaganda and organisation together with the pressing forward of thorough-going collectivist proposals for the ownership and control of industry for the common good, and the imagination to take advantage of everything that will help forward the great change from capitalist production for profit to Socialist ...

— Bolshevism: A Curse & Danger to the Workers • Henry William Lee

... 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 ...

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