collectivism

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What’s being asked for is competitive balance, and while it sounds nice, that’s an ambition that requires a healthy amount of collectivism and sacrifice, and leads to my last point here:

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Within these communities exists an informal collectivism, an ebb and flow of residents, of families, of neighbors coming together at farmer’s markets, in city parks and common spaces, in a tacit recognition of shared values.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

If the references to race and class feel ritualistic, it’s because the movie largely centers on one woman, a focus that’s profoundly at odds with the political radicalism of the Jane’s collectivism.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022

Though it scores high, as a nation, on measures of cultural collectivism, China’s 1.4 billion people are more than just a single culture.

From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 2022

We find this embodying two distinct, and apparently contradictory, tendencies—one towards greater individual freedom, the other towards a constant extension of the principle of cooperation, or collectivism.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore