You seem to confuse "leftists" with social activists. The two are worlds apart, even though there are some common threads. It's like saying "I know lots of BJP voters in Bengal and Karnataka, but they do not support compulsory Sanskrit/ Hindi, and do not want to go to Ayodhya to build a temple. Isn't this hypocrisy?"

Those who have a better idea of the real world than you will understand that there are no dichotomies in joining the formal economy ("capitalism"), while continuing to hold left-liberal political views.

We can recognize that our Apple iPhone and our fancy apartments are built on a form of exploitation and power imbalance. Because we are "leftists", some of us will consume the kind of media that highlights these stories, forcing Apple or the developer to change their practices.

We can also be leftists because we prioritize individual freedoms, like the right of two men to marry each other. This is in contrast to conservatives, who seek to "conserve" the status quo, and who prioritize the rights of the community ("gay marriage will tear apart the fabric of society") over the rights of the individual.

We can be leftists because we support free speech, and believe that the right to offend someone is greater than the right not to be offended ("jokes against religion will tear apart the fabric of society").

We can quote Marx (his most famous quote is "I'll be right here waiting for you", but he also said some good things about class struggles) and we can quote Chomsky (because his writings on propaganda are more relevant than ever, and give us the tools to understand how power tries to subvert truths).

We can be sympathetic to the social inequalities that far left political parties claim to stand for, while abjuring the methods that they use.

We can oppose some aspects of privatization, and support some aspects of the farm bills, because we take the effort to understand the problems they are trying to solve, the methods they are using to solve those problems, the trade-offs these methods involve, and the "winners" and "losers" of each approach. We don't go around on the Internet writing "leftists are frauds because they oppose the farm bills", and showing the world our ignorance.

We can also be leftists because we want to see a kinder, more empathetic, and more egalitarian society, instead of the shallow jingoism that we are being told to subscribe to.

We can be all of the above, while driving nice cars, wearing designer clothes, and being able to give directions from Galeries Lafayette to the Eiffel Tower.

What was your point, again?

I know a lot of corp partners who hate Indian RW, can't stand the BJP and would rather vote CPIM. But they are not the trade unionist types. Their grouse is against the social aspects of RW and therefore they identify as left wing - sometimes incorrectly.
So I suspect a bunch of "leftists" or those alleged to be leftists are actually liberals.
They don't have a problem with free market. They have a problem with crony capitalism. This limits the analysis to VERY VERY few people in law firms.

In law firms, one tends to not have a problem facilitating deals since you are not actively perpetrating fraud. If your client is bribing the govt or getting favours from the govt, you are not a part of that shady part. at best, you can only suspect. Thankfully the big law firms are far away from being those kind of "fixers". Their role is limited to professionally assisting the deal within the limits of law for best outcome for the client. In that sense this debate is similar to lawyers who defend criminals - if on account of their legal skills, they are able to keep their client out of Jail (and not part of the crime), would you still condemn them?