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Collectivistic   Listen
adjective
collectivistic, Collectivist  adj.  
1.
Relating to, characteristic of, or advocating, collectivism.
2.
Operating under collectivist principles. Note: (Narrower terms: socialistic (vs. capitalistic), socialist; communistic)
Synonyms: collectivized, state-controlled.






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"Collectivistic" Quotes from Famous Books



... business of a Liberal State to promote individuality and to create on this basis the general conditions by which social development can be achieved. According to them the State has no right to interfere in everything, to cure everything, to provide everything, as the collectivist would like; on the contrary, its first duty is abstinence—simply to preserve a fair field and to show no favour. These Old Liberals, in fact, regard the State as a legal corporation which exists merely to administer justice and to guard the constitutional ...
— Dutch Life in Town and Country • P. M. Hough

... really measured in existing societies by the amount of work necessary to produce it—according to the teaching of Adam Smith and Ricardo, in whose footsteps Marx has followed—suffice it to say here, leaving ourselves free to return to the subject later, that the Collectivist ideal appears to us untenable in a society which considers the instruments of labour as a common inheritance. Starting from this principle, such a society would find itself forced from the very outset to ...
— The Conquest of Bread • Peter Kropotkin

... instance of many which have shown that, while industrial development in the Allied countries is still largely a squabbling confusion of little short-sighted, unscientific, private profit-seeking owners, in Germany it has been for some years increasingly run on far-seeing collectivist lines. Against the comparatively little and mutually jealous British or American capitalists and millionaires Germany pits itself as a single great capitalist and competitor. She has worked everywhere ...
— What is Coming? • H. G. Wells



Words linked to "Collectivistic" :   collectivism, collectivist, socialistic, collectivized, collectivised, state-controlled



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