left-wing politics
Progressive reform advocacy
Left-wing politics encompasses ideologies favoring social equality, collective welfare, and government intervention in the economy.
The term originated from the French Revolution, when supporters of revolution sat to the left of the presiding officer.
Left-wing positions typically advocate for workers' rights, wealth redistribution, and expanded social programs: Her left-wing politics put her at odds with the business community.
The spectrum ranges from moderate liberals and social democrats to socialists and communists on the far left.
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
- liberalOpen to reform
- socialistProponent of collective ownership
- social justiceFair distribution of opportunities
- radicalRoot-indicating symbol
democrat · activism · direct action · protest · equality · welfare · universal healthcare · living wage · unions · workers unite · solidarity · class struggle · revolution · comrade · red · grassroots · grass roots movement · collective
- French RevolutionBastille, guillotine, Robespierre, French Revolution, Marie Antoinette
left-wing politicsconservatism
Preference for existing institutions
right-wing ideology · far-right politics · rightism · Thatcherism · Reaganism
left-wing politicslaissez-faire economics
Minimal state economic involvement
neoliberalism · supply-side economics · trickle-down economics · fiscal conservatism · Austrian economics
left-wing politicssocial conservatism
Ideology favoring established moral standards
traditionalism · religious conservatism · nationalism · ethnonationalism · religious right
left, wing, wings, winged, winger, left-winger, left-wingers, leftist, leftism