[[File:Green New Deal Presser.jpg|right|275px|thumb|[[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] is a [[Progressivism|progressive]] [[Democrat]].]]
'''Leftist''' refers to someone on the Left side of the [[political spectrum]], such as a particularly [[liberal]] member of the [[American]] [[Democrat Party]], a member of the [[British]] [[Labour Party]], a [[progressive]], [[socialist]], [[Democratic Socialist]], or (to the far Left) a [[Communist]]. A Leftist supports collectivism, more government control of the economy, direct government control over social policy (although there were some leftists, such as [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[Michel Foucault]], and [[Noam Chomsky]] who adhered to a purely [[anarchism|anarchistic]] view of the world), including federal control over education at all levels, lower [[military]] spending, censorship of religion, a [[Living Constitution|living constitution]], [[Same-sex marriage|same-sex "marriages"]], a more unisex society, [[globalism]], [[transnationalism]], [[feminism]], the [[homosexual agenda]], [[anti-Semitism]], [[racism]], support for [[Islam]], genital mutilation of children,<ref>https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/02/25/rand-paul-is-right-transgender-interventions-dor-kids-can-include-genital-mutilation/</ref> taxpayer-funded [[abortion]], and sometimes even taxpayer-funded [[terrorism]]<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/your-taxes-are-funding-terrorists-demand-that-this-stops</ref> and [[censorship]] of [[Christianity]] and [[social media]] in the public arena.Some leftists even want a totalitarian one-party world government.{{citation needed}}
== Origins of leftist ideology ==
During the French [[Reign of Terror]] of the early [[Enlightenment]], the Left attempted a de-Christianization movement to replace the "reactionary" worship of God and replace it with the worship of national patriotism, or the ''Patrie''. Many churches were closed and either converted into Temples of Reason,<ref>John Hall Stewart, ''A Documentary Survey of the French Revolution'' (Macmillan, New York, 1963).</ref> or otherwise demolished outright under the order of Jacobin leader [[Maximilien de Robespierre]] under the pretense that their design was "undemocratic."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050309031846/https://culturewars.com/CultureWars/Archives/Fidelity_archives/parricide.html Operation Parricide: Sade, Robespierre & the French Revolution]</ref> The Left even formed a new calendar [[Liberal censorship|secularizing Christian holidays]]. This calendar was short-lived though and was never accepted in the rural, more religious parts of France.
The term Left has its origins in 1790s, when in the French revolutionary parliament the representatives for the socialists sat to the presiding officer's left.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/left Left Ideology], Encyclopedia Britannica</ref> In addition, it was also stated that the left-wing had some origins in the [[Book of Revelation]] when [[Jesus Christ]] transfigured people on his right and left as sheep and goats, respectively.<ref>https://www.theculturewatch.com/the-french-revolution</ref><ref>The Origin of the Left WingIt was in the French Revolution that the terms 'left wing' and 'right wing' were first coined. Those on the left were the Radicals, who proudly adopted the designation as a symbol of their Revolutionary defiance of Christian tradition which always represented those on the right hand of God as saved, and those on the left as damned. (James Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men: Origin of the Revolutionary Faith.)</ref>
==19th century European leftists ==
Joseph A. Buttigieg, [[Pete Buttigieg]]'s father, was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society and served as the executive secretary."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100616163619/http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/joseph-a-buttigieg/</ref>
== Decline of leftism ==
See: [[Decline of leftism]]
=== Decline of the secular Left ===
''See:'' [[Decline of the secular left]]
== Leftism: Use of condemnation/mockery rather than reasonable argumentation ==
Although the [[secular left]] is known for ridiculing [[religion]] since at least the time of [[French Revolution]] (see: [[Atheism and mockery]]), the secular Left is known for its humorlessness when it comes to others mocking of its ideology (See also: [[Atheism and humor]] and [[Atheism and intolerance]] and [[Atheist hypocrisy]]).
==Leftism and violence==
:{{See also|2020 Leftist insurrection|Leftwing violence in the Trump era}}
Leftist ideology is known for its propensity to induce and inspire some of the most heinous and mindless acts of senseless violence and [[murder]].
*A Leftist deliberately swerved his pick-up truck to kill a [[Harley-Davidson]] motorcycle rider.<ref>https://www.wbay.com/2020/07/09/fdl-sheriff-man-to-make-initial-court-appearance-following-fatal-crash-on-winnebago-drive/</ref>
*Leftists defaced the [[Lincoln Memorial]] in [[Washington, D.C.]].<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/11/social-justice-warriors-deface-statues-of-actual-social-justice-warriors/</ref>
*Leftists tore down a statue to [[Frederick Douglass]], a runaway slave.<ref>https://nationalfile.com/black-lives-matter-rioters-topple-statue-of-black-abolitionist-legend-frederick-douglass/</ref>
*Leftists vandalized statues of [[Mahatma Gandhi]] in Washington and [[London]].
*Leftists defaced the statue of [[Winston Churchill]] in London who defeated [[Adolf Hitler]] and the [[Third Reich]].
*In keeping with [[San Francisco values]], leftists tore down the statue of [[Ulysses S. Grant]] who accepted the surrender of [[Confederate]] General [[Robert E. Lee]].
*In [[Madison, Wisconsin]], leftists tore down the statue of Col. Christian Heg, an [[abolitionist]] who gave his life free [[Black]]s. The same leftist [[homophobe]]s nearly beat to death a [[gay]] [[Democrat]] state senator who witnessed the violence.
*In [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], leftists defaced the 54th Regiment Memorial to Black soldiers in the [[Civil War]].<ref>https://www.westernjournal.com/rioters-deface-monument-black-civil-war-veterans-served-union/</ref>
*In [[Seattle]]'s [[CHOP]] zone, leftists shot three Blacks, killing two, one of the child. The third survivor was also a child.
*In [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]], leftists murdered an 8 year old Black girl and a Black male adult as part of the [[Black Lives Matter]] protests.
*In [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], leftist murdered a 77 year old retired Black police captain in retaliation for the murder of [[George Floyd]].
*In [[Oakland, California]], leftists murdered a Black federal security policeman to protest police brutality against Blacks.
*In Washington, D.C., leftists defaced to [[World War II]] memorial to commemorate the soldiers who defeated [[fascism]].
*Leftists are church burners.<ref>https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/paula-bolyard/2020/06/01/breaking-rioters-burn-historic-st-johns-church-in-d-c-deface-monuments-across-the-city-n474820</ref><ref>https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2020/05/21/mississippi-church-that-refused-to-closed-burned-down-by-arsonist-who-leaves-message/</ref>
== The future of Leftism ==
:{{See also|Decline of leftism| Decline of the secular left}}
==See also==
*[[Left-wing violence in the Trump era]]
*[[Leftism and humor]]lessness
*[[War on Freedom]]
*[[Peoples Temple Agricultural Collective]]
*[[Leftist chants]]
*[[Alliance for Global Justice]]
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