Sentence examples for the collectivist view from inspiring English sources

Karl Marx later provided the most succinct statement of the collectivist view of the primacy of social interaction in the preface to his Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy: "It is not men's consciousness," he wrote, "which determines their being, but their social being which determines their consciousness".

By the late 1920s the collectivist perspective had all but disappeared from mainstream social psychology.

Liberals such as L. T. Hobhouse and Dewey refused to adopt radically collectivist views such as those advocated by Bernard Bosanquet (2001), but they too rejected the radical individualism of Bentham, Mill and Spencer.

Though this individualistic reading of Weber may be as inadequate to Weber's actual views as the collectivist reading is of Durkheim's views, it is tempting to take Quasi-Weber's and Quasi-Durkheim's conceptions as marking the Scylla and the Charybdis of the analysis of collective intentionality.

Free-market libertarians, horrified by the collectivist solutions proposed by Greens, miraculously coalesce around a particular view on the heating trend of six billion trillion tonne rock.

Ironically, the legacy of the collectivist bias in Indian thinking has been the perpetuation of poverty.

Arthur had already shrugged off the collectivist values of the postwar years.

But today's discerning conservative understands that the collectivist timetable is out of gear.

The collectivist, egalitarian ideas that have been associated with Sweden for decades are fading.

Nationalisation and incomes policies, the collectivist panoply of vulgarly mislabelled "Keynesianism", were abhorrent to him.

Many focus on differences between the individualistic West and the collectivist East.