Left-wing

In politics, left-wing means an attitude that sees social equality as very important.

What a person means by left-wing depends on where the person lives.

• Especially in the USA and Canada it is linked to Social liberalism (as opposed to Classical liberalism) and Social democracy
• Especially in Western Europe, left-wing means democratic socialism and the Welfare state.
• In Eastern Europe and in Asia, South America, and Africa it is associated with Marxist-Leninism and/or Maoism, and Anti-Colonialism and land redistribution.

Those people in Western Europe who believe in Marxism-Leninism are often called the "Far-Left".

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Left-wing ideologies

• Communism
• Socialism
• Anarchism
• Marxism
• Social democracy
• Green politics
• Feminism

Left-wing issues

• Egalitarianism
• Democracy
• Secularism

Bibliography

• Encyclopedia of the American Left, ed. by Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, Dan Georgakas, Second Edition, Oxford University Press 1998, ISBN 0-19-512088-4
• Lin Chun, The British New Left, Edinburgh : Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1993
• Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000, Oxford University Press 2002, ISBN 0-19-504479-7
• Marxism on Terrorism by John Molyneux
• Terrorism and Communism by Karl Kautsky
• Leftism in India

Other websites

• The Marxists Internet Archive (a free online Marxist library)
• Leftist Parties of the World List of present-day leftist parties and organizations of the world, with links to their websites.