leftism

Example Sentences

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You’re not about to read a case for principled leftism or political courage.

From Slate • Jul. 10, 2025

The fellowship is part of a broader trend among Jews in progressive spaces who have sought to align aspects of their identity — like political leftism and queerness — with their Judaism.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021

But after crunching the numbers, the Monkey Cage analysts found that it's not urban arrogance or cultural leftism that's at the root of the problem and neither are different attitudes about gun ownership or faith.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2021

Whether the electorate is ready to appreciate or deeply consider distinctions within and between liberalism and leftism is another question.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 18, 2019

In his poetry, journalism, novels and films, Pasolini championed the disinherited and damned of postwar Italy, mingling an intellectual leftism with a fierce Franciscan Catholicism.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2013