Word info

Old Left

Proper noun

Meaning

the Old Left

(politics) The pre-1960s left wing in the Western world, typically having a vanguardist approach to social justice and focusing mainly on labor unionization and questions of social class.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Marxists were responsible for organizing the first International Women's Day events. citation The women's liberation movement is closely connected to the New Left and other new social movements that challenged the orthodoxies of the Old Left. Source: Internet

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