collectivism Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Soviet communism
    Bolshevism; sovietism.
  2. noun a political theory that the people should own the means of production

WordNet

Col*lect"iv*ism noun
Etymology
Cf. F. collectivisme.
Definitions
  1. (Polit. Econ.) The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.

Webster 1913