Vargas Llosa's campaign often had the aspect of a crusade as he condemned the "collectivist" programs of President Alan Garcia and leftist candidates.
The preliminary conference documents, while recognizing the importance of market forces, also included many collectivist nostrums.
The Socialists reacted with a policy of "normalization": They moderated economic interventionism, abandoned collectivist projects and acknowledged that healthy corporations were necessary for a strong economy.
He says he despises dogma, be it "collectivist" on the left or "liberal" on the right.
Being against it doesn't make one an intolerant collectivist.
Labour has persuaded itself that the chapter could return Britain to the days of collectivist industrial relations. The truth is more mundane, but none the less important to Britain.
But Lei Feng died at the height of Mao's collectivist era and the scanty evidence of those views appears stretched.
Confucianism is authoritarian, hierarchical, collectivist and anti-individualist, making no distinction between state and society and expecting the ruler to transform the behavior of the ruled.