I think you are misidentifying "leftist". Progressives != Leftists. Many progressives may be leftists, but most are rather centrist politically. A leftist is so

I think you are misidentifying "leftist". Progressives != Leftists. Many progressives may be leftists, but most are rather centrist politically. A leftist is someone that is against capital/capitalism. Whether this is through support of communism, heavy regulation of capitalism, support of mutualism or co-operatives, etc.