system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why are many philosophers politically rather left oriented?

In the past year I really started to enjoy philosophy a lot. A few weeks ago then I stumbled across the the youtube channel "the school of life" which is quite cool because it give me a quick peek into a lot of the theories from different philosophers I often heard about but never knew their work.

I noticed that a lot of the important philosophers of the last two centuries seem to be politically rather left wing oriented and tend to criticize capitalism a lot.

What is the reason behind this? Is it, that capitalism after all is the dominant form of economy in the west and since it sometimes seems that philosophers suffer in our society and thus tend to think about it more deeply it is only inevitable that they criticize this very defining part of our society?
gpt
There are two very different questions you could be asking here:

1. What are the sociological reasons driving political philosophy to be mostly made up of leftists?    
2. On what grounds do many political philosophers hold (i.e. justify) their left-leaning opinions?  

Which of these are you interested in?