Ultraleft
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌʌl.tɹəˈlɛft/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ultraleft is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to ultraleftism.
Meaning
Of or pertaining to ultraleftism.
More Meanings
- (far-left, derogatory) Of a leftist movement or ideology: extreme and uncompromising; sectarian.
- (generally) Extremely left-wing.
- (strictly) The left communist tendency characterized by a synthesis of Dutch-German council communism and Italian left communism.
- (by extension) Italian left communism; Bordigism.
- (far-left, derogatory) Leftism collectively considered uncompromising and sectarian, especially anti-Leninist Marxism.
- (collective) The strain or strains of leftism often associated with left communism, which practice rejection of both social democracy and state socialism as well as opposition to Leninism; i.e, ultraleftism.
- (rare, countable) An adherent of ultraleftism.
Example Sentences
This rejection of anything connected with bourgeois democracy would later become associated mainly with ultraleft radicalism, but its beginnings were another matter.
Word Forms
- ultra-left
- ultralefts
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include far-left, ultraliberal, uberleft, antileft, hard-left, far-leftist.
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