(Redirected from Hard-line):''This article is about the political epithet. For other uses see
hardline (subculture) and
Hardline (band).
In
politics, 'hardline' refers to the doctrine, policy, and posturing of a government or political body as being
absolutist, or
authoritarian. Hardline movements are usually extremist, militant, and uncompromising. Hardline movements range across the entire
political spectrum, including
black nationalism,
objectivism,
neo-Nazism,
radical feminism,
conservativism and
communism