WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
New′ Left′,
New′ Left′ist.
- Government(sometimes l.c.) a radical leftist political movement active esp. during the 1960s and 1970s, composed largely of college students and young intellectuals, whose goals included racial equality, de-escalation of the arms race, nonintervention in foreign affairs, and other major changes in the political, economic, social, and educational systems.
- phrase apparently introduced by U.south, southern. sociologist C. Wright Mills (1916–62) 1960
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