There are plenty of examples of leftists not being protectionist. The Girondins of revolutionary France were very pro free market, something that lost them a lo

There are plenty of examples of leftists not being protectionist. The Girondins of revolutionary France were very pro free market, something that lost them a lot of support among the starving sans culottes. The more radical Mountain factions appear to have mostly supported protectionist measures, namely maximum prices, largely out of the need to stop the mobs of Paris from literally storming the legislative halls. The moment the parisians believed that the maximum didn’t work, they were dropped.