When Was Collectivism Used?

Collectivism, as the political theorist Andrew Vincent has noted, was first used in the late 19th century to refer to those writers and intellectuals who sought to use the state and the apparatus of government to control or regulate the economy and other aspects of civil society.

What period did people support collectivism?

Collectivism is best associated with the ideology of socialism which developed throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

What is collectivism in history?

By The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica View Edit History. Collectivism, any of several types of social organization in which the individual is seen as being subordinate to a social collectivity such as a state, a nation, a race, or a social class.

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