Socialism Is Democracy Extended.

There has been a centuries-long trend of growth in the share of the population having a serious say in the way things run. Significant exceptions are easy to find and there have been terrible reversals, but still it is a big picture trend. I will call the agents behind reallocation of power from smaller to larger social groups “the left,” conceding that this is an oversimplification as well as anachronism, the “left/right” terminology arising only with the French Estates General.