A beautiful rainbow overwrought painting of the But what is leftism During the first half of the 20th century leftism could have been practically identified with socialism. Today the movement is fragmented and it is not clear who can properly be called a leftist. When we speak of leftists in this article we have in mind mainly socialists, collectivists politically correct types, by Thomas Nast and John Frederick Kensett, , trending on Pixiv | Painting