[f. as prec. + -IST: cf. F. collectiviste.]
1. One who adheres to the theory of collectivism.
1882. Standard, 31 Aug., 3/2. The Revolutionary Collectivists have just met with a misadventure.
1883. F. Harrison, in Pall Mall Gaz., 28 Sept., 2/1. The logical communists, or collectivists as they are called, bitterly complain of nationalization of the land as a device of the bourgeois to save the nationalization of capital.
2. attrib. or adj.
1882. Contemp. Rev., Sept., 459. Communists of the ‘Collectivist’ type.
1887. Pall Mall Gaz., 14 Oct., 1/2. The apostle of Anarchism was an opponent both of collectivist principles and methods.
