Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ideology of the political left.
- noun Belief in or support of the tenets of the political left.
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- noun Belief in the
principles ofleft-wing politics .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ideology of the political left; belief in or support of the tenets of the political left
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Examples
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Obviously it has to do with conservative contempt for what they perceive as refined culture, and the arts (artists being after all mostly “radicals” and “revolutionaries” as the old stereotype goes), the boogeyman of the French Revolution and revolutionary leftism is in there somewhere, the conservative sense of the French as ‘effeminate’, & too latin, is also in there.
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About the only thing that excommunicates him from leftism is raging homophobia.
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I think that an MRV perspective on academic leftism is to say that notwithstanding the mission of academicians to seek truth, politically they have no more motivation to be rational than anyone else.
Of Markets and Ideas, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Steve, Democrats aren't liberal anymore and conservatives are not helping leftists get elected; look at the national trend; leftism is a dying ideology.
Sound Politics: Follow-up on Lieberman, Lamont, & Schlesinger 2006
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Not only in our own history, but in the history of the world … A wave of anti-American leftism is sweeping Latin America.
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I suppose you could have Leftist Statism; and you could have Fascist Statism; but no, leftism is not about fascist statism.
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What we are trying to get at in discussing leftism is not so much movement or an ideology as a psychological type, or rather a collection of related types.
Think Progress » Sen. Edward Kennedy says voting against the Iraq war 2006
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AP said "Democrats aren't liberal anymore and conservatives are not helping leftists get elected; look at the national trend; leftism is a dying ideology."
Sound Politics: Follow-up on Lieberman, Lamont, & Schlesinger 2006
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Not only in our own history, but in the history of the world … A wave of anti-American leftism is sweeping Latin America.
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Not only in our own history, but in the history of the world … A wave of anti-American leftism is sweeping Latin America.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Ron Maxwell: Film Producer, Patriot… 2006
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