Etymology

post-left

Today it means: Designating a form of anarchism that aims to move away from traditional leftism. Full definition →

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From post- + left. Attested earliest in Bob Black's book Anarchy after Leftism (written in 1996, published in 1997), although Black assumed then that the expression was in circulation.

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