0 a theory or political system based on the principle that all of the farms, factories, and other places of work in a country should be owned by or for all the people in that country
1 a political system in which a country's land and industry are owned and managed by a government or by all of its citizens together
2 a theory or political system based on the principle that all factories, farms, etc., should be controlled by or for all the people of a country:
Guilds compelled their members to sell commodities at a level price, and in a spirit of collectivism endeavoured to prevent the making of corners and the practice of undercutting.
It is not possible to draw a hard-and-fast line between individualism and collectivism.
It would not, for example, be expedient for the church, at the present time, to take sides in the controversy between collectivism and private enterprise.
The period of collectivism is denoted by the growth of the Labour Party in Parliament, and the increasing part played by the State in industrial disputes and the regulation of wages.
You know that collectivism adopts the formula—to each according to his labor, while communism adopts this other—to each according to his needs.
These are then analysed according to the dimension of collectivism versus individualism.
In the former, labour-market liberalization is reinforced by political repression to eradicate labour collectivism.
Their respective intentions range from a criticism of the ideology of collectivism to a rehabilitation of the ideal of the autonomous individual.
