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Left-wing politics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In politics, left-wing , political left , leftist and the Left are terms used to describe a number of positions and ideologies. They are most commonly used to refer to support ...
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What appears below is an attempt to analyse most aspects of Leftist political thinking and display the psychological and sociological roots of such thinking in an historical context. Such a large subject requires a lot of pages so I start out with a brief conspectus.
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So WHY does an ideological Leftist oppose the existing social, economic and political order? Why are they usually so keen on advocating change, no matter how irrational or counter-productive it might be? There can in fact be many reasons why and for many Leftists more than one of the reasons listed below will apply.
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The phrase that best describes the left ideologies is 'the rich must pay', but the emotion of envy plays a strong role in policies. ... D: Leftist: one who subscribes to confusing and often contradictory ideology of the left.
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Probably the most famous critique of postmodernism from within the left came in the form of a 1996 prank by Physicist and self-described leftist Alan Sokal . Concerned about what he saw as the increasing prevalence on the left of "a particular kind of nonsense and sloppy thinking… that denies the existence of...
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Thursday, December 10, 2009 ... The Okey-Doke Presidency ... Over the course of the last week, the liberal narrative of political change has been exposed as a fiction, a creation as illusory as the Mighty Oz.
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