communalism
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- the practice of communal living and common ownershipType of group action
- loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a wholeType of commitment, allegiance
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Com′mu·nal·ism noun
A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederation of such states, having only limited powers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54