People who vaguely identify with some part of the political left. A jejune term, it is often used by people who think they're socialists despite opposing Marxist-Leninist ideas and refuse to touch socialist theory. They are often misguided Social Democrats and as such are actually pro-Capitalism, not anti-Capitalism.
Socialist: Hey, I'm tryna set up a Dictatorship of the Proletariat with my comrades.
Leftist: NOOO I hate dictatorships! Stalinist!
Socialist: So you don't know what you're talking about? Read theory.
Leftist: NOOO I hate dictatorships! Stalinist!
Socialist: So you don't know what you're talking about? Read theory.
by bolizen March 27, 2021
by George.IH June 16, 2017
The mechanism by which radical leftist, anti-American, anti-capitalist, virtue signaling, race baiting, hyper-snowflakey, trigger warned, intellectually vapid purveyors of Social Justice and Identity Politics Dogma escape the scrutiny/skepticism/mocking/humiliation that they have rightly earned by plagiarizing and/or regurgitating fringe-left talking points, hot-button words and phrases like "White Supremacy", "White Privilege", ".........we will not allow _______ to come to ________ University and spew racist, sexist, misogynistic, xenophobic and transphobic......", "Hate Speech", "Whiteness as a Commodity", "Tangible Value of Whiteness", "Toxic Masculinity", "Gender Identity" and their most disgraceful example of rampant and offensive hypocrisy..........."Tolerance."
They, of course, escape this scrutiny/skepticism/mocking/humiliation because every single one of their journalistic colleagues are also blinded by, protected by, and suffer from......Leftist Privilege.
They, of course, escape this scrutiny/skepticism/mocking/humiliation because every single one of their journalistic colleagues are also blinded by, protected by, and suffer from......Leftist Privilege.
Jesse Benn, a contributor to HuffPo, who wrote that "White Athletes Still Standing For The Anthem Are Standing For White Supremacy", and John Eligon who wrote in the New York Times that the anthem protests had no place in the N.F.L. because of the Capitalistic nature of the league...........were exempted from much of the mockery and embarrassment they had coming thanks to their Leftist Privilege.
by TreyOhFiver September 28, 2017
A e-girl pretending to be a leftist, when in reality she is just a radical liberal and doesn’t truly know what socialism is.
E-Girl: “Billionaires deserve to die,except black transwomen billionaires”
Normal Leftist:”you’re such a sanrio leftist”
Normal Leftist:”you’re such a sanrio leftist”
by Juche_Gang October 01, 2020
by AbsentStudent6 October 30, 2020
A person who promotes far-left ideas not because they actually believe in them or even understand them, but simply because they are trendy popular at the moment, a huge part of the identity politics movement.
by Kettlebell 78 September 23, 2019
A Communist Anglophile who is ashamed of calling himself a Communist to the point of creating a non-existent political ideology to mask his Communist tendencies
Guy 1: "Hey man you're such a Communist"
Guy 2: "Please don't call me that! I'm a leftist royalist!"
Guy 2: "Please don't call me that! I'm a leftist royalist!"
by nicmas July 02, 2015