Pure idealism to think you can be against all real attempts at socialism while supporting liberalism but think you're a socialist because of the ideas in your head. 'Leftists' like this seem to place real importance on half formed notions floating around their mind about 'eating the rich' without realising none of these matter while you refuse to challenge your preconceptions about the rest of the world and question whether propaganda has influenced you. If you don't do that, then no matter how many great ideas you've got, capitalists can turn you against every project built on similar ideas, and they count for nothing. Arguably very individualistic too, it's not dissimilar to conservatives who think they're Ayn Rand heroes who could personally challenge large systems