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Communalism

noun
1.
The practice of communal living and common ownership.
2.
Loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole.





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... the relationship being mutual and reciprocal in all points. It therefore produces a complete fusion of two lives and interests. Pair marriage and all its attendant mores are products of monopoly. Herodotus[1240] says of the Agathyrsi that they practiced communalism of women in order that they might all be brethren, without envy or enmity to each other. That is one solution. In it peace and harmony are given a higher place than sex interests. Pair marriage aims at the highest ...
— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner


Words linked to "Communalism" :   dedication, group action, loyalty, commitment, allegiance


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