Radical left is a synonym for the "farthest left" of left-wing politics. It is also present in the names of several political movements, several which are not of the far-left:
- Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), a left-wing political party in Greece
- Det Radikale Venstre, a centrist social-liberal party in Denmark
- Radical Left (France), a liberal parliamentary group during the French Third Republic
- Radical Left Front, a former alliance of political parties in Greece
- Radical Party of the Left, a social-liberal party in France
- Radicals of the Left, a defunct green and social-liberal party in Italy
Famous quotes containing the words radical and/or left:
“We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to- date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skepsis, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“Eliot dead, you saying,
“And who is left to understand my jokes?
My old Brother in the arts . . . and besides, he was a smash of
poet.””
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)