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Recent Examples of collectivism
The packet that Bruce assembled for the Social Security competition stressed that government support shored up the traditional family the way that pioneering families had helped one another; the effect was to associate the new policy with the American frontier, rather than radical collectivism.
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Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
Continue reading … ERIC PATTERSON – Evils of collectivism are just warming up.
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FOXNews.com,
8 Jan. 2026
Socialists keep dreaming of collectivism as New Yorkers suffer from unserious housing policy.
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Editorial Board,
Washington Post,
6 Jan. 2026
In fashion, as in politics, collectivism might make life better, but individualism often prevails.
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Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
Continue reading … ERIC PATTERSON – Evils of collectivism are just warming up.
—
FOXNews.com,
8 Jan. 2026
Socialists keep dreaming of collectivism as New Yorkers suffer from unserious housing policy.
—
Editorial Board,
Washington Post,
6 Jan. 2026
In fashion, as in politics, collectivism might make life better, but individualism often prevails.
—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for collectivism
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One America, with coastal elites in places like New York City and Los Angeles, who continue to steamroll towards full-on Marxism, and another with ordinary, hard-working Americans across the country, like here in the great state of Alaska, who don’t embrace this extremism.
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What does Marxism have to do with the policy positions of a Socialist?
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The Semiquincentennial Commission was conjured into being by Congress back in 2016, during that long-ago summer when the Democratic Party was convening in Philadelphia and the succession of one form of representational liberalism to another seemed pretty well secure.
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Those of us who care about keeping liberalism alive need Europeans to start defending it against all of its enemies—in Moscow, Beijing, and Washington.
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The kindergarten Leninism espoused by the DSA’s current leadership does not.
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Medieval threat to democracy The rhetoric of absolving Stalinism goes hand in hand with popularizing the state’s version of the Russian Middle Ages through public media channels.
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This critique involved not just intellectuals on the left, but also famous American realists who played a key part in rallying U.S. liberal opinion to resist Nazism and Stalinism.
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“Collectivism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collectivism. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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