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LEFT, TURNING TO THE
LEFT, TURNING TO THE
ScnTUEU
a coined
phrase
meaning adopting or taking a
radical
political
standpoint
. In
politics
, the
word
left
is usually applied to
socialist
or
communist
groups, as opposed to those of the
right
, i.e., conservatives. This
use
of
left
comes from the common European practice of seating the liberal and
radical
members of a
legislature
to the
left
of the presiding
officer
and the
conservative
members to the
right
.