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Recent Examples of collectivism
This tendency has elements of both collectivism and individualism.
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Jessica Dulong, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024
Federici’s endgame is a society that isn’t dependent on capital or state, and which operates on a foundation of interpersonal cooperation, care, and collectivism.
—Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024
How did this simple and wild fairytale from a faraway land capture the hearts of reserved Estonians and accompanied the tumultuous transition from collectivism to individualism?
Pitch: Doesn’t life nowadays look like a soap opera?
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024
The left is supposed to be the side giving the story of collectivism and solidarity, and nationalism provides a story about that that’s a lot more appealing to a lot of people than anything the left has had to offer, and that’s unfortunate.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 7 July 2024
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Jessica Dulong, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024
Federici’s endgame is a society that isn’t dependent on capital or state, and which operates on a foundation of interpersonal cooperation, care, and collectivism.
—Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024
How did this simple and wild fairytale from a faraway land capture the hearts of reserved Estonians and accompanied the tumultuous transition from collectivism to individualism?
Pitch: Doesn’t life nowadays look like a soap opera?
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024
The left is supposed to be the side giving the story of collectivism and solidarity, and nationalism provides a story about that that’s a lot more appealing to a lot of people than anything the left has had to offer, and that’s unfortunate.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 7 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for collectivism
Noun
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Value-form theory, as it’s often called, pays less attention than prior incarnations of Marxism did to the fission between labor and capital contained in the atom of the capitalist commodity, and stresses instead that both capitalists and workers must obey the same remorseless economic law.—
Benjamin Kunkel,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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With Marxism tainted by its aggressive materialism, and mere democratic socialism so mere, anarchism could be imagined as a series of defiant spiritual acts.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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New York’s benevolent liberalism of the Rockefeller years comes off as top-down benevolence, sociological benevolence, experience-free benevolence.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
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In the mid-twentieth century, however, liberalism began to predominate to such an extent that republicanism, and its concern with the civic consequences of economic choices, largely faded from view.—
Jennifer M. Harris,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Dina Khapaeva,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Anatol Lieven,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Collectivism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collectivism. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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