collectivism

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Recent Examples of collectivism People-pleasing can look indistinguishable from emotional intelligence in cultures that value harmony and collectivism. Karolina Komarnicka, Forbes.com, 5 June 2026 The packet that Bruce assembled for the Social Security competition stressed that government support shored up the traditional family the way that pioneering families had helped one another; the effect was to associate the new policy with the American frontier, rather than radical collectivism. Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026 The record might be considered the third in a trilogy exploring the importance of community, collectivism, and solidarity, in both joy and defiance. Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 2 Feb. 2026 Continue reading … ERIC PATTERSON – Evils of collectivism are just warming up. FOXNews.com, 8 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for collectivism
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Noun
  • One America, with coastal elites in places like New York City and Los Angeles, who continue to steamroll towards full-on Marxism, and another with ordinary, hard-working Americans across the country, like here in the great state of Alaska, who don’t embrace this extremism.
    Mike Dunleavy, New York Daily News, 14 July 2025
  • What does Marxism have to do with the policy positions of a Socialist?
    Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • The primary victory on Tuesday by another democratic socialist, Melat Kiros, for a Denver congressional seat suggested the trend may extend beyond Manhattan liberalism.
    Steven Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Remember, the heroic symbols that Ronald Reagan deployed so effectively were swiped from liberalism’s salad days in the Thirties and Forties.
    Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • The kindergarten Leninism espoused by the DSA’s current leadership does not.
    Harper's Magazine, Harper's Magazine, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 7 Jul. 2026.

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