Left and Right are always matters of perspective. Frankly, it's bizarre that we moderns pretend as if this is the first time in living memory we've experienced a "Re-Alignment". One example:
By time the late 1960s rolled around, Thurgood Marshall, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young were a ll viewed as "Right Wing", in comparison to Stokely Carmicheal, Huey Newton, and LeRoi Jones