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leftism - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun noun
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noun principles of left-wing politics .
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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.
Matthew Yglesias » The Brie Factor 2010
About the only thing that excommunicates him from leftism is raging homophobia.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Disbarment of Fred Phelps 2010
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
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
Not only in our own history, but in the history of the world … A wave of anti-American leftism is sweeping Latin America.
Breaking News on U.S. -Mexico Minuteman Spy Scandal 2006
I suppose you could have Leftist Statism; and you could have Fascist Statism; but no, leftism is not about fascist statism.
Think Progress » ThinkFast PM: July 5, 2006 2006
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
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
Not only in our own history, but in the history of the world … A wave of anti-American leftism is sweeping Latin America.
Ron Maxwell: Film Producer, Patriot… 2006
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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