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Left-Wing Politics
A position that accepts or supports SOCIAL EQUALITY• Often in opposition to social hierarchy and social
ineqauality
Revolves around the Concern for the following:• The Disadvantage relative to others• And the unjustified inequalities that needs to be
abolished
Beginnings
French Parliament
Monarchy
Left
&
Right
Generally opposed the
Monarchy and Supported the
revolution
Supported the Old RegimeTraditional in keeping the
King
French Revolution (1789-1799)
Over the Course of time
Left Transformed
Socialism, Communism
and Anarchism
Civil rights movements,
Anti-War, Environment
French Revolution
Twentieth Century
The Two-Party System• Left and Right now used as
labels for two different parties
• The extension of “Left-wing” to refer to whole Parties
• Democratic party in the US• Labour Party in the UK
Pink Tide or Turn to the Left
The increasing influence of Left-wing politics in
Latin America in the 21st Century
Pink Tide Nations
• Nation: President• Cuba: Raul Castro• Venezuela: Nicolas
Maduro• Chile: Michelle Bachelet• Brazil: Dilma Rouseff• Argentina: Cristina
Fernandez de Kirchner• Dominican Rep.: Danilo
Medina• Uruguay: Jose Mujica• Bolivia: Evo Morales• Honduras: Manuel
Zelaya• Nicaragua: Daniel
Ortega• Ecuador: Rafael Correa• Paraguay: Fernando
Lugo• El Salvador: Mauricio
Funes• Peru: Ollanta Humala
14 Nations that are Leftist
Cuba• Based on the 1992
constitution and the ideas of JOSE MARTI
• Lead the charge for Social reformation, through Agrarian reforms and Health reforms
• One of the world’s four remaining socialist states espousing communism
• The other 3 being: China, Laos and Vietnam
• Cuban Economy adheres to Socialist Principles
• Planned Economy• On 1965 under Fidel
Castro; the nation revived the Communist Party of Cuba
• During its development in the 1990’s it was supported by other socialist nations such as China, Venezuela and Bolivia
Venezuela
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
• Major Figure: Hugo Chavez
Under his Bolivarian Revolution Venezuela created a new Constitution• The party formulated the following policies:• Redistribution of wealth, land reform, and
democratization of economic activity
• Republic of Chile
• South America’s most stable and prosperous nations
• Democracy returned after the fall of the military government of Augusto Pinochet
Chile
• Chile achieved economic success through economic liberalization and privatization combined with social reforms
• 210% increase in social spending at low income sectors
• The Miracle of Chile