left wing

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1. left wing - Noun

2. left wing - Adjective

3. left wing - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

those who support varying degrees of social or political or economic change designed to promote the public welfare

believing in or supporting tenets of the political left

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left-wing

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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. Pat Paulsen

At the same time, I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations. Jerry Falwell

That's the left wing of the CIA debating the right wing of the CIA. Timothy Leary

They are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any other point of view. They don't even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive. Roger Ailes

I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system. James D. Watson

If the left wing was to rule, the result would be misery, terror and death, like it happens in every place where communism rules. Silvio Berlusconi

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