collectivism
/kəˈlektɪvɪzəm/ noun [U] POLITICS, ECONOMICSDefinition
› a theory or political system based on the principle that all factories, farms, etc., should be controlled by or for all the people of a country: They believed in industrial collectivism, that industry should be run by the workpeople for the workpeople, through the trade unions. → Compare individualism
(Definition of collectivism noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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