Editing Left-wing

'''Left-wing''' politics politics are political positions based on the left-right political scale, which is used to broadly and colloquially describe political beliefs.  

In a historical sense, '''left-wing''' refers to policies which advocate for a new political arrangement, in opposition to the [[status quo]] and the [[Ancien Régime|existing powers]].

[[Communism]] is thus a '''left-wing''' form of politics because "we call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things."<ref>Karl Marx, ''The German Ideology''</ref>