"But yes, I am categorizing the NT character as leftist and saying it negatively so."

But he ran the moneylenders out of the temple, told the fishermen to leave their boats and join him, and asked his followers to be as the lilies of the valley and toil not, but wait for nature to provide.

If he'd had a post-industrial Marxist perspective he would have dictated to the moneylenders their rate, nationalized the fisheries and then ( having deincentivized carpentry ) treated the means of production ( boats ) as if they would be provided to those who toil not. :)

Dante