Left-wing politics
In
politics, left-wing or the left, on the
left-right political spectrum, is associated with the interests of the working class. In France, where the term originated, the working class, or common people, were collectively known as the
third estate, and their representatives sat to the left of the president's chair. The term has been associated, in varying degrees, with Classical
Liberalism, Social (as opposed to Classical)
Liberalism,
Modern American Liberalism,
Social Democracy,
Socialism,
Communism,
Marxism,
Syndicalism,
Communalism,
Communitarianism,
Libertarian Socialism,
Anarchism,
Left-Libertarianism,
Populism,
Anti-colonialism,
Green Politics,
Progressivism, and the
Religious Left.
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left wing
Noun
1. those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare
(synonym) left
(hypernym) faction, sect
left-wing
Adjective
1. believing in or supporting tenets of the political left
(synonym) leftist, left-of-center
(similar) left
Left-wing, leftist
General descriptive terms for any of several otherwise quite varied political ideologies (
socialism ,
communism , social democracy,
welfare statism , contemporary American
liberalism , some versions of
anarchism , etc.) that join in
denouncing the extent of economic and social inequality in the present order of society and advocate the adoption of vigorous public policies to reduce or eliminate these inequalities, usually through some combination of the following: Reduction or elimination of legal protections for private property rights Greater regulation (or complete expropriation) of private economic activity Stringent limitations on the right to inherit wealth Higher tax burdens on the rich and the middle-class, and/or the provision of more tax-supported government services and money payments to the poor.
In America, the term has a somewhat more derogatory flavor than in European usage.
[See also:
right-wing ,
ideology ,
legitimacy ,
socialism ,
communism ,
anarchism ,
liberalism ,
welfare state ]
left wing
left-wing
left wing
n. สมาชิกพรรคฝ่ายซ้าย (syn. leftist, left-of-center)
left-wing
adj. ฝ่ายซ้าย (กลุ่มหรือพรรคการเมือง)
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