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:
“The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“But first Elpenor came, our friend Elpenor,
Unburied, cast on the wide earth,
Limbs that we left in the house of Circe,
Unwept, unwrapped in sepulchre, since toils urged other.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)