What is the historical importance of collectivization?

Answer 1

The historical importance of collectivization is yet to be determined fully, as it is a relatively new phenomenon in human society. In its many different appearances in the 20th century and beyond, however, it represents a highly sophisticated, if not consistently successful, way of organizing agricultural and business activities among modern humans, with emphasis placed upon group-effort and group-responsibility. That it has happened among both free and totalitarian peoples, for practical and for religious reasons, through the effort of wealthy and poor alike suggests that it can become a more common arrangement in the future.