therefore , they think of themselves as leftists , as far to the left as it is possible to go , in their minds . the structure of the economy is not an ideological issue to them . I agree with this , but not this . . . so they are as left as they can be without questioning that system as the best one . In their minds they believe they are as left as it is rational to be probably , but in reality they are no where close to pushing the limits of even this capitalist system let alone moving beyond it . In fact if you just compare what they advocate with international human rights from the UN , laws of war and worker rights from the ILO they are in such extreme opposition you ' d think they were the far right without any other knowledge of our prevailing mainstream spectrum . That ' s not even going into other possibilities like a basic income within a capitalist structure etc .