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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: epicure who wrote (9926)1/27/2006 12:48:06 PM
From: KLP  Read Replies (1) of 541457
 
Using YOUR definition from YOUR link, in a word, yes I would say this is true:
Really. Now Kerry and Gore are more "communistic"?


Possibly, you didn't read your own link. Maybe using this term, you are a Far Right, and didn't know it...??!!

Here it is:

Far-left
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The term far left refers to the relative position a person or group occupies within the political spectrum. Originally the term considered spacing in the French Revolution with the most radical of the Jacobins being viewed as the far-left. The term "Jacobin" for a kind of far-left person continued throughout much of the nineteenth century.

The far-left and the Radical Left often overlap in terms of belief, tactics, strategy and organizational affiliation, the far-left is a more general term that can include groups and politics that the Radical Left in particular might explicitly oppose and denounce. The term ultra-left, meanwhile, is distinct from both of the aforementined classifications, and is a term more often used pejoratively than self-descriptively.

modern times it is ideally used to describe persons or groups who hold radical egalitarian views thus supporting radical social and political change by taking over or overthrowing the existing order in society cn also include an anarchistic hostility to most or all existing Hierarchical organizations.ween groups on the far-left, depending on a group's militancy and the given political circumstances, revolutionary change may be achieved through democratic or authoritarian, violent or nonviolent means. Groups that advocate some form of revolution without being egalitarian, are generally not part of the far left, and may indeed be far right.

For much of the English speaking world, especially Australia and the United States, it is sometimes a perjorative term to indicate a person is extreme or fringe in their left-wing views. In France, the term extrême-gauche is normally only used for Trotskyist, Maoist or other New Leftist, or anarchist parties or groups, while the French Communist Party is not considered far left. political difference seems to be that far-left groups do not actually wish to govern within the current institutional framework, while the Communist Party seeks to govern, possibly even in coalitions.

Although the ern term is ideally to be used for advocates of radical egalitarianism, internationalism, and social changeis often used for something slightly different then that. be precise the modern use of the term far-left is often more to describe those seen as strongly opposed to globalization, capitalism, nationalism, and "family values."

In some nations it is defined as "to the Left of mainstream Communist parties" as communist parties are acceptable in quite a few nations. Hence it includes Trotskyism, Maoism, Anti-Revisionists, Anarcho-communism, Anarcho-syndicalism, and others strongly opposed to capitalist governments and institutions. Anarchism itself is not inherently left or right, but the forms that are "Leftist Anarchism" are often considered far-left.

In nations where Communist parties are not acceptable, like the United States, it can simply mean to the "Left of the most left-wing member of the legislature." "Far-Left" can also describe groups who support an intense "cultural revolution" on anti-traditional lines, like the most extreme thinkers in Radical Feminism. Sometimes the term "far left" is used pejoratively by those on the right wing to describe any view they perceive as hostile to capitalism. Others on the right-wing may use it to mean someone strongly antitheist even if their politics is otherwise centrist or even to the right.

The term "far-left" must be understood as relative to either the speaker or the context in which they are speaking. Two hundred years ago, for example, anyone who supported secularism and universal suffrage would be seen as a far-left extremist, but were often referred to as ultra-radicals at the time. Likewise, as mentioned, parties that'd be deemed "far-left" in one nation might be mainstream in another. This should not be overstated however as certain "far left" ideals like Anarcho-communism or collectivizing all land rights are arguably no more mainstream now then they were in the nineteenth century.

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Some organizations belonging to the Far Left
Anarchist Black Cross Federation
Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (South Korea)
Co-ed Revolutionary Anarchist Liberation Union (Poland)
Communist Party (Sweden)(formerly Communist Party Marxist-Leninists (the revolutionaries))
Feminist Initiative (Sweden)
Industrial Workers of the World
International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle)
International Socialist Organization
International Workers Association
Maoist Internationalist Movement
Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group
National Democratic Front (Philippines)
Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece
Peoples' Global Action
Red and Anarchist Action Network
Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
Unity List(Denmark)
Workers' Communist Party (Norway)
Workers Solidarity Movement(Ireland)
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See also
Ultra-left
Far-right
Left-wing politics
Liberal elite
Ideology
Left-Right politics
Glossary of the French Revolution
Political spectrum
Political compass
Words to avoid
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