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Recent Examples of collectivism
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.
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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
In fact, analysis by the international economists behind the G-SWA suggests that two-thirds of the variance between countries can be explained by their level of collectivism versus individualism.
—Beth Greenfield, Fortune Europe, 2 July 2024
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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
In fact, analysis by the international economists behind the G-SWA suggests that two-thirds of the variance between countries can be explained by their level of collectivism versus individualism.
—Beth Greenfield, Fortune Europe, 2 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for collectivism
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Her friends vaguely discuss gentrification and Marxism.Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
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In a similar way, even most of those who worked for the Soviet regime had stopped believing in Marxism by the 1980s.Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
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New Deal liberalism — the philosophy of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt — was dominant.Matthew Continetti, National Review, 21 Dec. 2024
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This triumph was one of both economic liberalism — mass consumerism — and political liberalism — free and fair democratic elections, the rule of law and free speech.Ben Ansell, NPR, 20 Dec. 2024
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Again, Breaking With Trump Caroline Ellison, Star Witness in FTX Case, Should Receive Lenient Sentence, Prosecutors Signal Trumpism, Stalinism and the Tariff Debate An 8-Year-Old Ohio Girl Takes a Solo Drive to Target in Family’s SUV Trump and Other Presidents Embrace Golf.New York Times, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2024
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In English class, some students might read Animal Farm as an allegory for Stalinism, while others see it as a story about talking animals.Russell Shaw, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Collectivism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collectivism. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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