Antedating of "Collectivism"

[Fred Shapiro]

collectivism (OED 1880)

1869 _Times_ 16 Sept. 6  He was ... little prepared to see the discussion
turn on the expediency of abolishing all rights of individual property,
and establishing the principle of "Collectivism," or Communism.

Fred Shapiro


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