Politična levica

V politiki se izraz levica v glavnem uporablja za podporo bolj egalitarni družbi.^[1][2] Ta običajno vključuje skrb za tiste v družbi, ki so prikrajšani napram drugim in predpostavljajo, da so neutemeljene neenakosti (ki jih politična desnica vidi kot naravne ali tradicionalne), ki jih je treba zmanjšati ali odpraviti.^[3] Izraza levica in desnica sta nastala v času francoske revolucije, zato se nanašata na sedežni red v Generalnih stanovih; tisti na levi strani so na splošno podpirali radikalne spremembe iz revolucije, vključno z ustanovitvijo republike in sekularizacije.^[4][5] Izraz se je kasneje uporabil za več revolucionarnih gibanj, še posebej za socializem, anarhizem^[6] in komunizem kot tudi za bolj reformistična gibanja kot sta socialna demokracija in socialni liberalizem.^[7][8]

Sklici in opombe

1. Smith, T. Alexander and Raymond Tatalovich, Cultures at War: Moral Conflicts in Western Democracies (Toronto, Canada: Broadview Press, Ltd., 2003) p. 30.
2. Bobbio, Norberto and Allan Cameron, Left and Right: The Significance of a Political Distinction (University of Chicago Press, 1997) p. 37.
3. Lukes, Steven. 'Epilogue: The Grand Dichotomy of the Twentieth Century': concluding chapter to T. Ball and R. Bellamy (eds.), The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought.
4. Uporaba izraza "Levica" je postala bolj vidna po ponovni vzpostavitvi francoske monarhije leta 1815, ko je bila uporabljena za "neodvisnike".
5. Realms of memory: conflicts and divisions (1996), ed. Pierre Nora, "Right and Left" by Marcel Gauchet, p. 248
6. Brooks, Frank H. (1994). The Individualist Anarchists: An Anthology of Liberty (1881–1908). Transaction Publishers. p. xi. "Usually considered to be an extreme left-wing ideology, anarchism has always included a significant strain of radical individualism...
7. Van Gosse, The Movements of the New Left, 1950 - 1975: A Brief History with Documents, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, ISBN 9781403968043
8. Arnold, N. Scott (2009). Imposing values: an essay on liberalism and regulation. Florence: Oxford University Press. str. 3. ISBN 0495501123. Modern liberalism occupies the left-of-center in the traditional political spectrum and is represented by the Democratic Party in the United States, the Labor Party in the United Kingdom, and the mainstream Left (including some nominally socialist parties) in other advanced democratic societies.