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COLLECTIVISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A political theory that the people should own the means of production
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("collectivism" is a kind of...):
ideology; political orientation; political theory (an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation)
Derivation:
collectivist (a person who belongs to the political left)
collectivistic (subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Soviet communism
Synonyms:
Bolshevism; collectivism; sovietism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("collectivism" is a kind of...):
communism (a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "collectivism"):
revisionism (a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism)
revisionism (any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx)
Derivation:
collectivist (a person who belongs to the political left)
collectivistic (subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively)
