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Ads by Google      A Brief Chronology of Collectivism Collectivism is the opposite of capitalism or free enterprise, in which the means of production are owned by private individuals and distribution is determined by free trade and considerations of personal profit. Communalism is a form of collectivism in which ownership of the means of production is vested in a smaller unit, the commune, with a corresponding reduction in the authority of the state. Modern revolutionary communism is a more extreme type of collectivism in which not only capitalistic enterprise but also most private property is abolished, by violent means if necessary. http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/samuelson.html   (17600 words)      Collectivism - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library Lenin, Vladimir I....Soviet Union was the epicenter of a communist empire that, until its disintegration in 1991, spread doctrines of economic collectivism and class struggle to almost every part of the globe. The costs of collectivism Mention the nationalised railways...comparable to this triumph of old Labour collectivism. Broadly speaking, collectivism values have in common the primacy... http://www.questia.com/SM.qst?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=Collectivism   (1487 words)      collectivism --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia Collectivism may be contrasted with individualism (q.v.), in which the rights and interests of the individual are emphasized. English sociologist and philosopher who tried to reconcile liberalism with collectivism in the interest of social progress. Whereas Lenin and other Soviet writers could not admit that bureaucracy had a permanent and “organic” position in the Soviet system, other Marxists thought that it was at its centre and that it defined more than anything else the very nature of the regime. http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9024764   (426 words)      BlackCrayon.com: dictionary: 'collectivism' It seems to me that one thing all forms of collectivism share is that individual choice is always subordinate to The Group, be it the fascist volk or a local soviet or an anarcho-syndicalist people's council or whatever other fiction of 'society' the state decides to use. In collectivism, the "collective is the ultimate value, to which individual goals are subordinate." 'Collectivism' is defined as the theory and practice which make a collective or collectives rather than individuals the ultimate and fundamental unit of political, social, and economic concern. http://blackcrayon.com/library/dictionary/?term=collectivism   (238 words)      Ayn Rand [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] Having studied American history and politics in university, and having long been an admirer of Western plays, music, and movies, she became an admirer of America's individualism, its vigor, and its optimism, seeing it as the opposite of Russian collectivism, decay, and gloom. Not believing, however, that she would be free under the Soviet system to write the kinds of books she wanted to write, she resolved to leave Russia and go to America. As a youth, she had been repelled by the communists' political program, and now an adult, she was also more fully aware of the destructive effects that the revolution had had on Russian society more broadly. http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/r/rand.htm   (4140 words)      collectivism - OneLook Dictionary Search Words similar to collectivism: bolshevism, collectivist, collectivistic, collectivistically, leninism, marxism, marxism-leninism, sovietism, more... Phrases that include collectivism: bureaucratic collectivism, economic collectivism, soviet collectivism Collectivism : The Ism Book A Field Guide to the Nomenclature of Philosophy [home, info] http://www.onelook.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=collectivism   (237 words)      collectivism - OneLook Dictionary Search Words similar to collectivism : bolshevism, collectivist, collectivistic, collectivistically, leninism, marxism, marxism-leninism, sovietism, more... Phrases that include collectivism : bureaucratic collectivism, economic collectivism, soviet collectivism Collectivism : The Ism Book A Field Guide to the Nomenclature of Philosophy [ home, info ] http://www.onelook.com/?loc=rescb&w=collectivism   (237 words)      The Perversion of Science and Medicine (Part II): Soviet Science and Gun Control Soviet science, subjugated to Soviet socialist policy, did not support Lamarckian theory any more than the possibility of creating a new man; yet, the madness went on for decades with science perverted, lives wasted, generations lost --- all thrashed in the infamous cesspool of collectivism. The lessons of history sagaciously reveal that whenever and wherever science and medicine have been subordinated to the state and individual will has been crushed by tyranny, the results have been as perverse as they have been disastrous, as the examples of Nazi Germany and the former Soviet Union so aptly testify. During this time (1930s through the 1950s), at the helm of Soviet science was Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976), a Soviet agronomist who, as President of the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Science (1938-1956) and Director of the Institute of Genetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, became the supreme leader in Soviet science, genetics, and agriculture.(1) http://www.haciendapub.com/article7.html   (237 words)      Consumer Information and the Calculation Debate In 1989 Leonid V. Kantorovich, a Nobel Laureate Soviet economist, echoed Lange's fascination with the use of mathematical optimization techniques, even as the death knell sounded for Soviet collectivism: "I am looking optimistically on the prospects of wide spread of mathematical methods... The crumbling of collectivism has vindicated Hayek and Mises in their contention that information is the Achilles' heel of socialism. Ironically, the economic crisis that led to the breakdown of collectivism was directly associated with the revolution in communications technology involving electronic computers, fax machines, and modems. http://www.libertyhaven.com/theoreticalorphilosophicalissues/austrianeconomics/consumer.html   (237 words)      Bureaucratic collectivism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia However, Trotsky doubted that a state of pure bureaucratic collectivism would ever be reached; he believed that, in the absence of a proletarian revolution to return the Soviet Union to socialism, a comprehensive counter-revolution would return the nation to capitalism instead. The theory of bureaucratic collectivism was maintained by socialists such as Hal Draper, and is now held by sections of Solidarity in the USA and Workers Liberty in the United Kingdom and Australia. Bureaucratic collectivism is a theory of class society. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucratic_collectivist   (596 words)      Edmunds Enterprises of America, Inc. Other good books would be, of course, the Black Book of Communism, a Century of Violence in Soviet Russia, Gulag, the Soviet World of American Communism, and for economic theory challenges to collectivism, Road to Serfdom by Hayek and Socialism by Von Mises. He had lost faith in the Soviet system over the years, and was especially disturbed by the KGB's systematic silencing of dissidents at home and abroad. It's the story of the Soviet Cold War propaganda offensive against Denmark. http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/product_detail.php/ASIN/0465003125   (596 words)      Leon Trotsky: 1942: In Defense of Marxism Chapter I We frequently call the Soviet bureaucracy a caste, underscoring thereby its shut-in character, its arbitrary rule, and the haughtiness of the ruling stratum which considers that its progenitors issued from the divine lips of Brahma whereas the popular masses originated from the grosser portions of his anatomy. In the bureaucratic degeneration of the Soviet state it is not the general laws of modern society from capitalism to socialism which find expression but a special, exceptional and temporary refraction of these laws under the conditions of a backward revolutionary country in a capitalist environment. The bureaucratization of the Soviet state was in its turn the consequence of the “incapacity” of the proletariat itself to regulate society through the democratic mechanism. http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1942-dm/ch01.htm   (596 words)      Lysenkoism -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article When Lysenko began his fieldwork in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, (Click link for more info and facts about agriculture of the Soviet Union) agriculture of the Soviet Union was in a massive crisis due to the massive (The organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism) collectivization movement. Lysenko used his position to denounce biologists as "fly-lovers and people haters," and to decry the " (Someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job) wreckers" in biology who he claimed were trying to purposely disable the Soviet economy and cause it to fail. Lysenkoism also spread to (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) China, where it continued long after it was eventually denounced by the Soviets. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/l/ly/lysenkoism.htm   (1312 words)      Theories of the USSR in light of its collapse That is, the Soviet Union remained a dictatorship of the proletariat —a regime between capitalism and socialism. That is, his proposals didnÂ’t go in the direction of empowering the workers and peasants to democratically run their enterprises, or to reviving the soviets as real workers and peasants committees to democratically run the government and the economic plan. Soviet reality went in exactly the opposite direction of these norms of socialism as envisioned by Marx, Engels and Lenin. http://www.dsp.org.au/links/back/issue18/Sheppard.htm   (1312 words)      Elena V. Baraban, University of Victoria While MarininaÂ’s plots have an affinity with classical mysteries, and her interpretation of the milieu and commentary on the social order in Russia link her novels to the hard-boiled detective fiction, MarininaÂ’s strategy in depicting characters connects her novels to Soviet culture. Drawing on readings of literature and culture by such scholars as Mixail Baxtin, Siegfried Kracauer, Andreas Huyssen, and Svetlana Boym, I analyze MarininaÂ’s plots, choice of victims and criminals, her strategies in portraying the protagonists in the light of cultural memory, nostalgia, and historical sensibilities after the fall of the Soviet Union. Like authors who worked in the tradition of socialist realism, Marinina romanticizes the inconspicuous (modesty) and collectivism while criticizing wealth, the so-called “beautiful life” (krasivaja žiznÂ’), and individualism. http://aatseel.org/program/aatseel/2003/abstracts/Baraban.htm   (472 words)      Part Four: The nature of Stalinism Some have looked at the Soviet Union, been repulsed by the Purge trials, the labour camps, and the monstrous frame-ups, and the general totalitarian nature of the regime and drawn the conclusion that Stalinism is a new exploitative society with its own bureaucratic ruling class. For example in the Soviet Union, in the early days after the Tsarist army had been dissolved, the Red Army was forced to employ the services of ex-Tsarist officers, under the control of the political commissars. The Soviet regime was based on the new property relations that issued from the October Revolution, but still had many elements taken over from the old bourgeois society. http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/%7Esocappeal/russia/part4.html   (472 words)      Commentary Magazine - Saving Asia for Democracy ...Democracy in Europe is based on a standard of living which the Soviet Union cannot yet match and it has great ideological and organizational resources to fall back on... ...The answer is largely in the hands of the socialists, the only political group in Asia dedicated to both democracy and economic collectivism and prepared to attack the economic misery of Asia with the vigor and equalitarianism required to overtake the Communist advance... ...mr consideration of Asian democracy is futile without first disposing of the view that, with the victory of the Chinese Communists, it is too late to save Asia from Communism without war against the Soviet Union... http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V9I4P36-1.htm   (472 words)      Youth and Generation As the results of the research show the general tendency among the children of the Soviet generation was the "ideologization" of consciousness, ideas of "collectivism" and stable interrelation between the personal and social needs in the form of society-oriented dreams. The first generation is today's adults (32-34 years old) who were within 10 to 12 age group in 1980-1984 and lived in the Soviet society where the Soviet ideology and value system predominated in all spheres of social life, including "childhood". Flaws that should be taken into account before drawing conclusions on declining civic virtues and civic engagement of younger generations. http://www.um.es/ESA/Abstracts/Abst_rn22.htm   (16295 words)      Bureaucratic collectivist - definition of Bureaucratic collectivist in Encyclopedia The theory of bureaucratic collectivism was maintained by socialists such as Hal Draper, and is now held by sections of Solidarity in the USA and Workers Liberty in the United Kingdom and Australia. Bureaucratic collectivism is a theory of class society. It was also taken up by Bruno Rizzi, who unlike his predecessors believed that bureaucratic collectivism was a progressive form of government. http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Bureaucratic_collectivist   (475 words)      False Claims That Israel Is America's Strategic Ally The media never examined the facts that the Arabs were too individualistic and too focused on religion to find Soviet collectivism or atheism attractive. As for the Middle Eastern countries bordering the Soviet Union, Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan, all had historical reasons for rejecting the Russian bear and anything it purveyed, including communism. NATO's role was to keep the Soviet Union out of Europe, and its cost was several times the cost of helping Israel. http://www.giwersworld.org/israel/strategic.phtml   (475 words)      FrontPage magazine.com :: How I Underestimated Reagan by Dinesh D'Souza Soviet socialism, what Reagan called the “evil empire,” was only the most grotesque example of collectivism taken to its extreme limit. Collectivism is the great idea of the twentieth century, and opposition to it was the unifying element of Reagan’s thought. What we found new about Reagan was his bold and optimistic challenge to collectivism. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13735   (475 words)      Clark Palmer's statement to Langlade Co. Wi. forum on SMART GROWTH This style of governance has a name, and it has been a popular method of people-control for most of the last century; it is called, generically, collectivism; it was popularized in the mid-20th century under the title of soviet socialism. I'm not talking about Russia coming to Langlade County- I'm talking about its methodology coming here; soviet does NOT mean Russian or Communist; it means "council", or "committee." I'm not talking about Russia coming to Langlade County- I'm talking about its methodology coming here ; soviet does NOT mean Russian or Communist; it means "council", or "committee." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/893622/posts   (475 words)      Prometheus Books In their introductory essay, co-editors Haberkern and Lipow examine the context in which these articles were written and evaluate the significance of the theory of bureaucratic collectivism in the post-cold war world, for an understanding of developments in the former Soviet Union and China and within modern corporate capitalism. In presenting the arguments for seeing the Soviet Union as a society that was democratic socialism and provide a theoretical basis for the reconstruction of socialism as the democratic alternative to global capitalism and to the new forms of bureaucratic or managerial corporatism in the former Communist societies. http://www.prometheusbooks.com/catalog/book_1659.html   (141 words)      The Origins of Political Correctness [Free Republic] Gramsci believed in the wake of the failure of the attempted Bolshevik-style armed revolutionary Spartacist uprisings in Germany in 1918-19 that the best way for socialism/collectivism to succeed in more developed and industrialized capitalist societies was to infiltrate and corrupt a nation's cultural, economic and social institutions with socialistic/atheistic beliefs. It didnÂ’t spread and when attempts were made to spread immediately after the war, with the Spartacist uprising in Berlin, with the Bela Kun government in Hungary, with the Munich Soviet, the workers didnÂ’t support them. Antonio Gramsci was a prominent Italian Communist in the 1920s and 1930s who was in large part the originator of the stealth "third way" approach to gradually imposing collectivism. http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3810eb1e0d57.htm   (4628 words)      IDEOLOGY AND POLICIES OF YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS, AS SEEN BY THEIR LEADERS Collectivism and anti-consumerism only require the Soviet-style Moral Code of the Builder of Communism for a complete picture. However, BUPY leader reiterates that moral values are primarily centred around Christianity, giving the Soviet system of values a new shape, which is more attractive today. http://www.internews.ru/iiseps/10/2.html   (4628 words)      Paul A. Klanderud Second, the devolution of collectivism into conformism, stemming from linguistic totalitarianism, or a process whereby man is "thingified" by the language--Soviet Newspeak-- which coerces humans into functioning as "cogs" in the nascent socialist machine. First, the "new Soviet man's" inability to appreciate the "socialist" potential of things and to come to terms with their newly designated functions. Klanderud, Paul A. Things, man, and utopia: From Russian futurism to socialist realism. http://aatseel.org/dissertations/literature/klanderudp.html   (339 words)      BooksandAuthors.net A fourth as long but eminently more readable, within its 177 slim, narrow-margined pages is a feel-good story about the residents of an upper-class neighborhood infused with themes of sexuality, racism and scathing criticisms of Christianity and Soviet collectivism. He arranges to borrow a decorated tree from a neighbor and gets the police called on him (the neighbors' co-ordinated surveillance of Luther call vividly to mind Rand's fears of the Big Brotherism found in Soviet society). Luther tries to "do Frosty" and slides off the roof, and is saved from destruction only by a stray rope around his ankle. http://www.booksandauthors.net/Reviews/SkippingChristmas.html   (339 words)      Lecture 13: George Orwell and "The Last Man in Europe" Individualism and collectivism were joined together as the "middle road." Orwell had seen what this union had accomplished in Italy, Germany, Spain and the Soviet Union. The only variation is a short part titled " The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism " by Emmanuel Goldstein, the Trotsky-like figure who is daily the object of the two Minutes' Hate. The reader must experience the world through his eyes, and his eyes alone. http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture13.html   (339 words)      George Orwell: a literary Trotskyist? Goldstein's secret book at the heart of the story--entitled The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism --was drawn from the Workers Party in America and their debates in the pages of Partisan Review, which argued that the Soviet Union was a bureaucratic collectivist society, rather than capitalist or socialist. For Macdonald, who debated fiercely with Burnham in Partisan Review, 'the bourgeoisie have been replaced by a new ruling class, the bureaucracy; capitalism has yielded to bureaucratic collectivism'. Newsinger takes great pains to distance Orwell from James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution (which another Blair and his Third Way mentor seem to have swallowed wholesale), which claimed that the managerial class was the new ruling class, and locates, instead, Nineteen Eighty Four 's chief political influence in the writings of American Trotskyist Dwight Macdonald. http://www.isj1text.ble.org.uk/pubs/isj85/chen.htm   (339 words)      Rothbard on Orwell While deploring the obvious anti-Soviet nature of Orwell’s thought, Williams noted that Orwell discovered the basic feature of the existing two- or three-superpower world, "oligarchical collectivism," as depicted by James Burnham, in his Managerial Revolution (1940), a book that had a profound if ambivalent impact upon Orwell. As collectivism sprouted following World War I, many keen observers felt that there was a big difference between the idyllic Edens pictured by Bellamy and Wells and the actual conditions of the various "waves of the future." At the turn of the century, neither Edward Bellamy nor H. Wells suspected that the collectivist societies of their dreams were so close at hand. http://www.mises.org/rothbard/rothbardorwell.asp   (339 words)

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