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== Left-wing politics ==
{{wikipedia|Left-wing politics}}
{{ambox|text=The following was copied from English Wikipedia's "Left–right political spectrum" article; the [[wikipedia:Left–right political spectrum#United States]] section.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Left%E2%80%93right_political_spectrum&oldid=1000589292</ref> Future versions should be less specific to the United States, and have fewer red links. -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 09:53, 16 January 2021 (UTC)}}
A 2005 [[Harris Insights & Analytics|Harris Poll]] of American adults showed that the terms ''left wing'' and ''right wing'' were less familiar to Americans than the terms ''[[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]]'' or ''[[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]]''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100209185224/http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=542 Political Labels: Majorities of U.S. Adults Have a Sense of What Conservative, Liberal, Right Wing or Left Wing Means, But Many Do Not], The Harris Poll #12 (February 9, 2005).</ref> [[Peter Berkowitz]] writes that in the U.S., the term ''liberal'' "commonly denotes the left wing of the Democratic Party" and has become synonymous with the word ''progressive''.<ref>Peter Berkowitz, "The Liberal Spirit in America and Its Paradoxes" in ''Liberalism for a New Century'' (eds. Neil Jumonville & Kevin Mattson: University of California Press, 2007), p. 14.</ref>
[[Michael Kazin]] writes that the left is traditionally defined as the social movement or movements "that are dedicated to a radically [[egalitarian]] transformation of society" and suggests that many in the [[American Left|left in the United States]] who met that definition called themselves by various other terms.<ref>Michael Kazin, ''American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation'' (2011: First Vintage Books ed., 2012), p. xiv.</ref> Kazin writes that American leftists "married the ideal of social equality to the principle of personal freedom" and that contributed to the development of important features of modern American society, including "the advocacy of [[equal opportunity]] and equal treatment for women, ethnic and racial minorities, and homosexuals; the celebration of sexual pleasure unconnected to reproduction; a media and educational system sensitive to racial and gender oppression and which celebrates what we now call [[multiculturalism]]; and the popularity of novels and films with a strongly altruistic and [[anti-authoritarian]] point of view."<ref>Michael Kazin, ''American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation'' (2011: First Vintage Books ed., 2012), p. xiii-xiv.</ref> A variety of distinct left-wing movements existed in American history, including [[Labor history of the United States|labor movements]], the [[Farmer-Labor]] movement, various [[democratic socialist]] and [[History of the socialist movement in the United States|socialist movements]], pacifist movements, and the [[New Left]].<ref>Michael Kazin, ''American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation'' (2011: First Vintage Books ed., 2012), p. xix.</ref>
== Right-wing politics ==
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