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post-left

post-left adjective: designating a form of anarchism that aims to move away from traditional leftism.

Adjective

post-left (not comparable)

  1. Designating a form of anarchism that aims to move away from traditional leftism.

Origin of post-left

From post- + left. Attested earliest in Bob Black's book Anarchy after Leftism (written in 1996, published in 1997), although Black assumed then that the expression was in circulation.

Questions about post-left

What does post-left mean?
Post-left means designating a form of anarchism that aims to move away from traditional leftism.
What part of speech is post-left?
Post-left is an adjective.

Words near post-left in the dictionary

  1. post-juvenile
  2. post-juveniles
  3. post-kinetic
  4. post-ladies
  5. post-lady
  6. post-left
  7. post-leftist
  8. post-leftists
  9. post-liberal
  10. post-liberalism
  11. post-liberals

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