collectivism

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Recent Examples of collectivism Pay attention to how fast Democratic Socialists of America candidates spouting collectivism are making headway. — Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 8 June 2026 People-pleasing can look indistinguishable from emotional intelligence in cultures that value harmony and collectivism. — Karolina Komarnicka, Forbes.com, 5 June 2026 The record might be considered the third in a trilogy exploring the importance of community, collectivism, and solidarity, in both joy and defiance. — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 2 Feb. 2026 Continue reading … ERIC PATTERSON – Evils of collectivism are just warming up. — FOXNews.com, 8 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for collectivism
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  1. Marxism
  2. liberalism
  3. Leninism
  4. Stalinism
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  • And yet—there is also the Ginsberg who went to Cuba in 1965 to agitate for gay liberation against the homophobic Castro regime, where despite the poet’s own (kind of) Marxism he was expelled.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • In the film, Sonny’s furious tinpot Marxism is part of his skewed reality.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026
Definition of Marxism
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  • Right’s multiculturalism Meanwhile, the American right was increasingly united less by biological notions of race and more by opposition to multiculturalism, feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, immigration and liberalism.
    — Eladio Bobadilla, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The 11th Congressional District territory has long been a central hub of American liberalism, in and around iconic neighborhoods such as Castro, Haight-Ashbury, Chinatown, and the Mission District.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of liberalism
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  • Quite a few rights-defenders, to be sure, began their search for first principles with the idea of a return to Leninism.
    — Benjamin Nathans September 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The kindergarten Leninism espoused by the DSA’s current leadership does not.
    — Harper's Magazine, Harper's Magazine, 27 Feb. 2025
Definition of Leninism
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  • Like Stalinism or the Khmer Rouge, anti-Zionism represents a wrong turn for the left.
    — Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
  • Until Hoxha's break with Nikita Khrushchev's USSR, after the abjuration of Stalinism, Sazan was in Soviet hands, a thorn in the side of the West, a base for 12 Whiskey-class submarines and of chemical-biological weapons plants.
    — Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
Definition of Stalinism

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