Hypertext Webster Gateway: "collectivism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Collectivism \Col*lect"iv*ism\, n. [Cf. F. collectivisme.]
(Polit. Econ.)
The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society
collectively or as a whole; communism. --W. G. Summer.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
collectivism
n 1: a form of communism based on the writings of Marx and Lenin
[syn: {bolshevism}, {Marxism-Leninism}, {Leninism}, {Marxism},
{Sovietism}, {sovietism}]
2: a political theory that the people should own the means of
production
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