collectivize

Make jointly owned

To collectivize is to organize something under collective or state ownership, particularly land and agriculture.

The term is most associated with Soviet-era policies that forced peasants onto collective farms: Stalin's drive to collectivize agriculture caused widespread famine.

More broadly, it can mean to bring any enterprise under group rather than individual control.

political

nationalize

Transfer to state ownership

centralize · redistribute · confiscate · requisition · appropriate · seize · vesting · annexation · appropriation · dispossession

ideological

Marxism

Class-based revolutionary philosophy

proletariat · revolution · redistribution · egalitarianism · anti-capitalism · masses · mobilization · ideology · comrade · bourgeoisie

agricultural

commune

Shared-living community

consolidation · mechanization · tractors · tillage · cultivation · harvest · cropping · husbandry · arable · pooling

cooperative

pooling

Merging shared contributions

coordination · collaboration · communal · profit-sharing · syndicate · federation · amalgamation · merger · integration · unionization

Opposites
ownership structure

collectivizeprivatize

Transfer to non-government ownership

privatization · denationalize · reprivatize · deregulate · marketize

organizational direction

collectivizeindividualize

Make distinct for someone

decentralize · distribute · disperse · disaggregate · fragment

Family

collectivism, collectivist, collectivization, collectivized, collectivizing

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