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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

... say my prediction stood 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 had the appearance of being reforms. Nero not only fiddled ...

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

... possibility of offering to backward rural districts a technical and social aid capable of determining an extraordinary increase of productivity of agricultural and rural labour, and of engaging the small cultivators, in their own interest, to pass progressively to a collectivist mechanical cultivation" (p. ...

— The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism • Bertrand Russell