Word: collectivistic
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Kelman admitted that democratic socialists were collectivist, but said that "doesn't mean individuals should be submerged, or made into faceless masses...
Singer defined talent as "an innate and relentless urge to brood about the eternal questions, a refusal to accept human and animal suffering--so that the artist is never a collectivist, but always unique...
This stichomythy has so little relation to anything approaching sense that one is hard pressed to believe it ever occurred. Far better it were the creation of some absurdist gone mad. That the Federal Theatre, which Mrs. Flanagan represented, could be investigated for producing Marlowe, for putting on "collectivist" children's plays, is only one symptom of the national disease...
LIANG'S MAJOR concern was the danger of foreign imperialism rather than the individual liberties of the citizen. Liang favored a collectivist democracy of the type which the author compares to the Greek polis in which--unlike the 19th century liberal democracies--the needs of the multitude took precedence over those of the individual...
Smithies proceeds "on the assumption that the first alternative, which is clearly preferable, is also feasible." He is unable to envision a coalition government somewhere in between, a government that would combine collectivist holding patterns with a non-Communist framework...