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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
Noun
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And Marxism, communism and socialism were all, to those on the right, part of that same soup.—
Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
2 Mar. 2025
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With Marxism tainted by its aggressive materialism, and mere democratic socialism so mere, anarchism could be imagined as a series of defiant spiritual acts.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Trump’s vision stems from the right-wing anticommunist movements of the 1950s, which pitted the West against its enemies, drew on religious motifs, and harbored a suspicion of American liberalism as too soft, too postnational, and too secular to protect the country.—
Michael Kimmage,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Continue reading … 'CENSORED OURSELVES' – Former Canadian party head says White workers rejected liberalism after being 'betrayed' by its policies.—
Fox News,
Fox News,
15 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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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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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“Collectivism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collectivism. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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