leftist ideology
Politics favoring equality
Leftist ideology encompasses political beliefs emphasizing social equality, collective welfare, and government intervention to address economic disparities.
The term covers a spectrum from moderate progressivism and social democracy to socialism and communism.
Leftists generally favor workers' rights, wealth redistribution, expanded social programs, and challenges to traditional hierarchies.
Her leftist ideology shaped her views on healthcare reform.
The label is often used neutrally by adherents but pejoratively by opponents.
- redistributionSharing out again differently
- climate justiceFairness in environmental impacts
- intersectionalityInterconnected identity-based discrimination study
- social justice warriorPejorative for progressive activist
- anti-colonialismOpposition to foreign domination
democratic socialism · syndicalism · socialism · Marxism · critical theory · feminism · communism · deconstructionism · anarchism · anti-capitalism · late capitalism · anti-racism · postmodernism · anti-imperialism · proletariat · disability advocacy · participatory democracy · LGBTQ+ rights
leftist ideologyright-wing ideology
Politics favoring tradition, hierarchy
conservatism · conservative ideology · far-right ideology · Trumpism · Thatcherism
leftist ideologycapitalism
Private profit-based economy
laissez-faire economics · neoliberalism · supply-side economics · Austrian economics · trickle-down economics
leftist ideologytraditionalism
Adherence to inherited customs
social conservatism · religious conservatism · fascism · nationalism · patriarchal values
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