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In general, it is usually used to describe persons or groups who hold extreme views that seek fundamental social and political change by taking over or overthrowing the existing order in society. Depending on a group's militancy and the given political circumstances, revolutionary change may be achieved through democratic or undemocratic, violent or nonviolent means. Typically, far-left groups are socialist, communist or anarchist and strongly oppose capitalist governments and institutions.
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