collectivism (kolektivizm)

[ As used in current speech, and also in economics, no definite line of distinction between communism and socialist on bestea connerengthshould socialism can be drawn. Generally speaking, communism be accepted as the reasonably correct usage of the word; but even by socialists it is frequently used as practically synonymous with socialism. Collectivism is a word which has recently come into vogue to expre the economic basis of socialism as above explained. Encyc. Brit., XXII. 207, note. Collectivism , which is now used by German as well as by French writers, denotes the condition of a community when its affairs, especially its industry, are managed in the collective way, instead of the method of separate, individ ual effort. Woolsey, Communism and Socialism, p. 4. collectivist (ko-lek'tiv-ist), n. and a. I. n. [ ual responsibility. pro Orpen , tr. of Lavelaye's Socialism, p. 245. 1102 The Marxists insisted that the social regime of collective property and systematic co-operative production could not po ibly be introduced, maintained, or regulated, except by means of an omnipotent and centralised political authority-call it the State, call it the collectivity , call it what you like which should have the final disposal of everything. Rae , Contemp. Socialism, p. 140. 4. Collectivism; especially, the ownership on the part of the state or the people at large of all means of production, especially of the soil. Collectivity, in the dialect of the Socialists, means the ownership of all the instruments of production by the state, and its use of them in such manner as shall seem best calculated to eradicate or diminish poverty. The Nation, Nov. 15, 1883.