Concept
Centre-left politics
Overview
position within the political spectrum
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The struggle for the supremacy of the State over other forms of organization was directed against the power of minor districts, provinces, principalities, against the dispersion of power among feudal lords as well as, in some countries, against the pretensions of an ecclesiastic potentate. The "State" represents the conspicuous culmination of the great movement of social integration and consolidation taking place in…
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
Close in meaning to Centre-left politics; the term itself is not named.
The fulfilment of all legislative decisions still devolves on the original directive centres: the impulse passing from the Parliament to the Ministers and from the Ministers to the King, in whose name everything is done; just as those smaller, first-developed ganglia, which in the lowest vertebrata are the chief controlling agents, are still, in the brains of the higher vertebrata, the agents through which the…
Herbert Spencer, Essays
Close in meaning to Centre-left politics; the term itself is not named.
In the parliamentary epoch, during the period of stability of social relations, the psychological factor--without great error--was the foundation upon which all current calculations were based. It was considered that parliamentary elections reflected the balance of power with sufficient exactness. The imperialist war, which upset all bourgeois society, displayed the complete uselessness of the old criteria.
Leon Trotsky, Dictatorship vs. Democracy
Close in meaning to Centre-left politics; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Centre-left politics
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Place in the tradition
Part of A. C. Grayling.