COLLECTIVISM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)