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Far-left politics, also known as extreme left politics or left-wing extremism, are politics further to the left on the left–right political spectrum than the standard political left. The term does not have a single, coherent definition; some scholars consider it to be the left of communist parties , while others broaden it to include the left ...
This is a list of European political parties that have been classified as centre-left or far-left on the political spectrum. The categorisation of some parties may vary in different sources. The categorisation of some parties may vary in different sources.
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Far-left politics are political views located further on the left of the left-right spectrum than the standard political left. The term has been used to describe ideologies such as: communism, anarcho-communism, left-communism, Marxism–Leninism, Trotskyism, and Maoism. [1] [2
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However, Evan Smith in Against the Grain: The British Far Left from 1956, [4] uses the term 'far left' "to encompass all of the political currents to the left of the Labour Party," including "anarchist groups". The scope of this article limits the discussion of far left politics to the period since 1801 i.e. the formation of the United Kingdom.
For example, while the terms have been conflated at times, communism has come in common parlance and in academics to refer to Soviet-type regimes and Marxist–Leninist ideologies, whereas socialism has come to refer to a wider range of differing ideologies which are most often distinct from Marxism–Leninism.
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