Wolin is often described as representing the hard Left not because of the conceptualization then cited in your text but because he s noticed that a other historical democracies like Athens and early Rome succumbed to becoming empires with democracy losing out and b the way an empire describes itself is often not accurate source public lecture keynote speaker CLMP Annual Event Redway Calif Nov 1 2008 So American Democracy is deconstructed in his books But why does the hard Left term link to a very specific British political party leftist term of art to which Sheldon Wolin has no cited direct connection whatsoever 75 111 41 64