COLLECTIVISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collectivism mean? 

• COLLECTIVISM (noun)
  The noun COLLECTIVISM has 2 senses:

1. Soviet communism

2. a political theory that the people should own the means of production

  Familiarity information: COLLECTIVISM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLECTIVISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soviet communism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Bolshevism; collectivism; sovietism

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)

Sense 2

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)