A lot of leftists — half-leftists and converted leftists, so to speak — went to Vilna or Kovno, but I went on to Russia, not to the big cities but to little towns, villages, collective farms.
Just as the complacent upright parents in Philip Roth's "American Pastoral" see their world capsized by their own children, who become militant leftists, so the Berglunds inadvertently have bred a native rebel, their son, Joey.
Such radicals did call for abolition, but radicals of a very different sort — thinkers who offered a new understanding of how societies hang together and prosper without the centralized commands that Kazin's leftists so extol — also lent their influential voices to the cause of abolition.
Paul Joseph Watson, Alex Jones's offsider at Infowars, appeared to acknowledge the political homogeneity of the site when he gabbed: Now that Twitter is purging everyone, I think it's important for Gab to branch out and attract leftists so we're not just preaching to the choir".
Two-thirds of islanders were considered leftists, so when an extreme rightist was appointed governor by the mainland, tensions started to mount.
Varoufakis' appeal is directed at French leftists so troubled by Macron's plans to liberalize French labor laws and pursue other capitalist economic policies that they say they cannot bring themselves to vote for him.
Mr. Castañeda came to know Mr. Fox while trying to forge an alliance between Mr. Fox and the leftist opposition so a single candidate would run against the PRI.
Neorealism – which fancied real locations, amateurs in most roles, and a realistic depiction of everything ignored by the Mussolini era's frothy cinema dei telefoni bianchi (white telephone films) – arose from the ashes and rubble of the German retreat in 1944-5, and was a cinematic equivalent to all the reawakening leftist tendencies so long suppressed by Il Duce.
Moscow recently has relied on paid agents instead of leftist ones, so if Trump is driven by profit, this would not leave him an outlier among Moscow's Western assets.
Terence and his brothers were picked on at school because of their father's leftist views, so Vincent Hallinan had a boxing ring built for them and taught them to fight.
In the House of Deputies, as rumors circulated this week of an attempt to force them to leave, the leftists went so far as to chain the doors shut with padlocks.
