hard left

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hard left

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UK The section of the left wing that supports traditional socialist policies, distinguished from the social democratic centre-left and the communist and anarchist far left. This new hard left includes several interesting social strands. There is the far left, close to the Communist Party, with its naive assumptions about the unity of interest and purpose among working class people
Opposite: soft left
Synonym of far left.
Similar: far left
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hard, left.

adjective harder left · hardest left

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@misc{hard_left_2026,
  title = {hard left},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hard%20left},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}