COLLECTIVISM  , a See also:

• TERM

term used to denote the economic principle of the ownership by a community of all the means of productionin See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to secure to the See also:

• PEOPLE

people collectively an equitable See also:

• DISTRIBUTION (Lat. distribuere, to deal out)

distribution of the produce of their associated labour . Though often used in a narrow sense to See also:

• EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express the economic basis of See also:

• SOCIALISM

Socialism, the latter term is so generally employed in the same sense that collectivism is best discussed in connexion with it (see SOCIALISM) .