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'''Left-wing | '''Left-wing''' politics in a historical sense refer to policies which advocate for a new political arrangement, in opposition to the [[status quo]] and the [[Ancien Régime|existing powers]]. | ||
[[Communism]] is thus a '''left-wing''' form of politics because "we call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things."<ref>Karl Marx, ''The German Ideology''</ref> | |||