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Someone holding “left” political-economic views (e.g. anti-capitalist, socialist, anarchist...).
Leftist views often critique capitalist markets as being wholly insufficient in satisfying human rights and desires.
Leftist views often critique capitalist markets as being wholly insufficient in satisfying human rights and desires.
While mainstream politics have largely accepted Reagan-era “trickle down” economic theory, the leftists continue to reject this outright. Leftist maintain that capitalist profit is always created through the extortion of labor, “Money doesn’t trickle down. It’s soaked upward through low wages and a system hat prioritizes profit over people.”
by average at best October 24, 2017