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-'''Left-wing poliitcs''' in a historical sense refer to policies which advocate for a new political arrangement, in opposition to the [[status quo]] and the [[Ancien Régime|existing powers]]. However, in modern contexts, left-wing politics have been captured by the status quo itself, as can be seen with the [[Synthetic Left]].
+'''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>