Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The ideology of the political left.
- n. Belief in or support of the tenets of the political left.
Wiktionary
- n. Belief in the principles of left-wing politics.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the ideology of the political left; belief in or support of the tenets of the political left
Examples
“About the only thing that excommunicates him from leftism is raging homophobia.”
“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.”
“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
“I suppose you could have Leftist Statism; and you could have Fascist Statism; but no, leftism is not about fascist statism.”
“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
“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…
“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
“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
“American leftism is completely based on lies, and the left in reality hates free speech.”
“This kind of international circling of the dictatorial wagons is to be expected from a mostly undemocratic body like the U.N., but change has indeed come to Washington when even the United States cannot differentiate between illiberal Latin American leftism and real democracy.”
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EU - Eurovoc - politics
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-ism's -logies
acosmism, absurdism, absolutism, ableism, aestheticism, alarmism, allotheism, anachronism, animalculism, analogism, animatism, animism and 464 more...
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docflo's Words
contraption, cuss, knickers, asparagus, retina, imponderabilia, gaseous, onomatopoetic, zig-zag, leftism, tmesis, tardy and 16 more...
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