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plural leftists
(politics, generally) A person who holds views associated with the political left. quotations examples
The first major clash between the two groups occurred in Shih-ho-tzu on January 26, 1967, with the leftists admitting they had suffered a bloody defeat.
1976, June Teufel Dreyer, China's Forty Millions: Minority Nationalities and National Integration in the People's Republic of China, Harvard University Press, page 214
(politics, specifically) Someone who holds socialist or communist-leaning economic views, usually alongside progressive social views; an anticapitalist. examples
comparative more leftist, superlative most leftist
Of or pertaining to the political left. examples