Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "far-left" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "far-left" over time.
Far-left politics are politics further to the left on the political spectrum than the standard political left. In certain instances—especially in the news media—far left has been associated with various forms of authoritarianism, anarchism, communism, and Marxism, or are characterised as groups that advocate for revolutionary socialism and related communist ideologies, or anti-capitalism and anti-globalisation. Far-left terrorism consists of extremist, militant, or insurgent groups that attempt to realise their ideals through political violence rather than using democratic processes. Read more on Wikipedia