(n.) The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism.
Example Sentences:
(1) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
(2) Formerly Belgium's Catholic hospitals prospered within a system based on collectivized financing and individualistic service delivery patterns.
(3) This break with collectivism appears to support the coalition's message of self-reliance.
(4) At one point, I hear him claiming that the current Labour leadership "doesn't understand collectivism".
(5) The consequences of hunkering down and seeing this as an individual problem will be that it simply worsens and affects more individuals; before innovation, it will take collectivism – medical, political and social.
(6) Is this sort of ethical collectivism – whereby those living today share guilt for the past crimes of those they belong to by dint of their nation, race and so on – just, or productive?
(7) You could say that it all began when Tony Blair brought forth his New Labour project, which, by his own admission, owed as much to the philosophy of Margaret Thatcher as it did to ideas of collectivism and working-class solidarity.
(8) Labour proposed collectivism over individualism and a politics that people could be part of.
(9) Although recent American attention has been largely focused on autonomy as an important value for quality of life in old age, there is real danger in emphasizing personal independence at the expense of community or collectivism.
(10) There’s a lot of anarcho-collectivism in the fellowship around abstinence-based recovery.
(11) Collectivism has been trumped by consumerism, common responsibilities by individual rights.
(12) In this process, Galton's liberal views concerning individual freedom and opportunity for full development became transformed into their dialectic--totalitarian--collectivism--a vision of an ideal state which did not come into being.
(13) The modern characterisation of this class is that its members are insecure and shiftless – lacking either the job security and collectivism of the old working class, or the capital of the traditional middle class.
(14) This pursuit of collectivism, in the face of decades of rampant individualism, was always one of the more radical aspects of Corbyn’s leadership.
(15) The reason the government assigns jobs is very simple: As part of strict control over all kinds of resources under its collectivism system, the government researches how many people are needed in each industry and location, and assigns people accordingly.
(16) With one lone vote, we can't expect Seattle to collectivize Starbucks and Amazon anytime soon.
(17) Neither is this to suggest that these places were working- class Gardens of Eden where everyone was greeted with a cheery salute and a tip of the cap and lived out a noble and higher existence based on collectivism and the works of Charles Dickens.
(18) The statistical comparison of two collectivs of patients showed, that with routine use of indrect binocular ophthalmoscopy and renunciation of drainage of the subretinal fluid (49% of the cases) the curing rate of the cases which were operated with a combination of cryopexie and plombage raised from 75% to 96%.
(19) As internationalists who believe in solidarity and collectivism we should campaign unequivocally to remain a member.” Apart from Leslie, the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, and the shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt, have said they will not serve.
(20) In fact, Wales speaks a language of corporate collectivism that would not be out of place in Rand's novels.
Statism
Definition:
(n.) The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It's also fed by an ideological opposition and, coming out of the 20th century, the battle against excess statism in various forms became a deeply held view, and I share that view if it's stated properly, but some take it to such an extreme that anything which implies a new regulation or a new role for government is automatically attacked."
(2) If it means we shouldn't worry about local government cuts because volunteers will pick up the pieces – and that it's the "answer" to Labour statism, it gets a big raspberry all round.
(3) When he first advanced this idea, many saw it as little more than a classic piece of electoral triangulation designed to distance himself both from the "there is no such thing as society" of the Thatcher creed and the statism of Gordon Brown.
(4) She believed that, as early as 1890, America had veered from its free-market roots and was descending into statism.
(5) His proposal for a National Growth Council has been scorned by some Tory critics as a return to the statism of the 70s, while his public-interest test for foreign takeovers looks like quite a tall order in a globalised economy.
(6) For this was the era of welfare capitalism, and an ethos of statism and paternalism – above all, a belief that active government was necessary for a healthy, stable society – was shared by those with power.
(7) There is too much reliance on top-down statism rather than partnership and reshaping the architecture of capitalism.
(8) Geert Wilders ’ Dutch Freedom party suddenly converts itself from free-market anti-statism to workers’ rights and the minimum wage.
(9) When it comes to rhetoric, the modern establishment passionately rejects statism.
(10) One new MP, Will Quince, dismissed it as the worst form of “nanny statism” and said there was no evidence that it worked.
(11) Center capitalism, welfare statism, and liberal sociodemocracy have evolved in Western capitalist countries.
(12) There is no vacancy in the fabled centre ground: Labour occupies it, while Cameron has marched rightwards with the most ideological Tory party since the war, recklessly pursuing neoliberal anti-statism.
(13) Some Conservatives may not be happy with the nanny statism but the government will be able to rely on opposition support to get it through.
(14) It’s only despotic nanny statism when applied to civilised white men.
(15) The model of traditional Russian statism is at least true to itself.
(16) Part I presented a critique of contemporary theories of the Western system of power; discussed the countervailing pluralist and power of elite theories, as well as those of bureaucratic and professional control; and concluded with an examination of the Marxist theories of economic determinism, structural determinism, and corporate statism.
(17) In a previous era, when neoliberal austerity was first being prepared in tandem with a racist, authoritarian crackdown, Greek political sociologist Nicos Poulantzas spoke of the "redeployment of legal-police networks" as a constitutive element in a new "authoritarian statism".
(18) Part I presents a critique of contemporary theories of the Western system of power; discusses the countervailing pluralist and power elite theories, as well as those of bureaucratic and professional control; and concludes with an examination of the Marxist theories of economic determinism, structural determinism, and corporate statism.