# hard left

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The section of the left wing that supports traditional socialist policies, distinguished from the social democratic centre-left and the communist and anarchist far left.
2. Synonym of far left.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hard, left.

## Source
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