Collectivism - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Collectivism :  (noun)
1: Soviet communism [syn: Bolshevism, sovietism]
2: a political theory that the people should own the means of production

Based on WordNet 2.0

Collectivism : \Col*lect"iv*ism\, n. [Cf. F. collectivisme.] (Polit. Econ.) The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. --W. G. Summer.

Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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