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Recent Examples of collectivism
Twenty years after superfluids were discovered, the American physicist Eugene Gross suggested (opens a new tab) that the same quantum collectivism could emerge in solids.
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Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
Latine culture — with its traditional gender roles, values of collectivism and familia, and the lingering effects of colonization — makes embracing kink extra challenging.
—Bae Leche, refinery29.com, 3 Oct. 2024
This tendency has elements of both collectivism and individualism.
—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
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Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
Latine culture — with its traditional gender roles, values of collectivism and familia, and the lingering effects of colonization — makes embracing kink extra challenging.
—Bae Leche, refinery29.com, 3 Oct. 2024
This tendency has elements of both collectivism and individualism.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for collectivism
Noun
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Even philosophies of meaning (Marxism, nationalism, utilitarianism) took on a mechanistic bent.—
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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As young men and women embrace faith — along with folk songs, traditional dress and ancient tea ceremonies — some experts see it as a movement back to forms of Vietnamese identity that preceded Marxism and war.—
Damien Cave,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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According to this narrative, late-stage liberalism and the globalization of markets, with their characteristic rootlessness, dissolve this communal existence.—
Peter H. Schwartz,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2025
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President Eisenhower was famously frustrated by Chief Justice Earl Warren’s liberalism.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
13 May 2025
Noun
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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 16 Jun. 2025.
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