leftist
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[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɛf.tɪst/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈlef.tɪst/
Noun
[edit]leftist (plural leftists)
- (politics, generally) A person who holds views associated with the political left.
- Synonym: left-winger
- Coordinate terms: centrist, rightist
- 1976, June Teufel Dreyer, China's Forty Millions: Minority Nationalities and National Integration in the People's Republic of China[1], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 214:
- The first major clash between the two groups occurred in Shih-ho-tzu on January 26, 1967, with the leftists admitting they had suffered a bloody defeat.
- (politics, specifically) Someone who holds socialist or communist-leaning economic views, usually alongside progressive social views; an anticapitalist.
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[edit]a person who holds views associated with the political left
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Adjective
[edit]leftist (comparative more leftist, superlative most leftist)
- Of or pertaining to the political left.
- 2023 November 29 – December 5, Rob Natelson, “Why I Still Doubt the 2020 Election”, in The Epoch Times, U.S. edition, number 488, A, page 17:
- In law school, when we students thought the outcome of a case was determined by a rule we had studied, leftist professors admonished us, “Tools not rules!” In other words, rules control nothing; they’re merely tools you manipulate for the results you want. The fancy word for this kind of amorality is “instrumentalism,” and it subverts the rule of law.
Derived terms
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[edit]pertaining to the political left
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