collectivismn.
/kəˈlɛktɪvɪz(ə)m/ 1. The socialistic theory of the collective ownership or control of all the means of production, and especially of the land, by the whole community or State, i.e. the people collectively, for the benefit of the people as a whole.
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collectivism1880
collectivization1890
collective ownership1891
1880 Sat. Rev. 8 May 587 By Collectivism is meant that everything is to be done and managed by a society. Railways, mines, forests, and even the soil, are to be worked by associations.
1887 T. Kirkup Socialism in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 206/2 The essence of the theory consists in this—associated production with a collective capital with the view to an equitable distribution. In the words of Schäffle, ‘the Alpha and Omega of socialism is the transformation of private competing capitals into a united collective capital’.
1887 T. Kirkup Socialism in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 207/2 Collectivism is a word which has recently come into vogue to express the economic basis of socialism as above explained.
1887 Pall Mall Budget 27 Jan. 29/2 The treatment of the social question on the principle of collectivism, as opposed to that of individuality.
2. (See quot. 1884.)
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1884 West Chester (Pa.) Local News XII. No. 53. 1 A new word, ‘collectivism,’ has become current among British medical men. It is used to express all that is embodied in the phrase ‘collective investigation of disease’.
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