What does "collectivism" mean?

An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the people collectively

Collectivism

Common synonyms include: bipartisanship, bolshevism, centralism, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration.

noun

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Noun

1
An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the people collectively countable, uncountable
2
a political theory that the people should own the means of production wordnet
3
The practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it. countable, uncountable
4
Soviet communism wordnet

"Algeria forced collectivism upon farmers in the 1970s and 1980s."

From collective + -ism.