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Recent Examples of collectivism
In fashion, as in politics, collectivism might make life better, but individualism often prevails.
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Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Between collectivism and capitalism.
—Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Perhaps co-ops remain scarce elsewhere because real-estate collectivism makes some people suspicious.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2025
In addition, Brown draws on Black traditions of culture and collectivism to mobilize communities.
—Essence, 6 Aug. 2025
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Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Between collectivism and capitalism.
—Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Perhaps co-ops remain scarce elsewhere because real-estate collectivism makes some people suspicious.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2025
In addition, Brown draws on Black traditions of culture and collectivism to mobilize communities.
—Essence, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for collectivism
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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
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What does Marxism have to do with the policy positions of a Socialist?—
Matt Fleming,
Oc Register,
13 July 2025
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Emanuel, 66, has talked his way into 2028 presidential speculation by challenging his party’s college-town liberalism and pitching paid-for ideas.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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According to the profile, his tolerance for right-wing antisemitism is rooted in a catastrophist worldview that frames American liberalism as an existential threat and Trumpism, with all its flaws, as the only viable alternative.—
Asaf Elia-Shalev,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Mar. 2026
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The kindergarten Leninism espoused by the DSA’s current leadership does not.—
Harper's Magazine,
Harper's Magazine,
27 Feb. 2025
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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
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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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“Collectivism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/collectivism. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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