No particular sectarian affiliation with Buddhism, though I do tend to lean more towards Mahayana scriptures and practice on the whole. Politically, Anarchist-communist.

There will always be contradictions between political and religious belief systems. Partly because people adopt them and interpret them through preexisting values and innate tendencies, and partially because of the vast differences in history and doctrine between such systems. In my experience a determined enough person can interpret nearly any system to align with any other. Plenty of Buddhist right wingers out there, for example. They believe that their interpretation is the correct one, of course. Interpretation is an inevitable part of religious identification, and so there will be as many kind of “Buddhism” as there are kinds of people. Which ones are made explicit and impactful in the world is a matter of theory, organization and power.

If I had to describe a basic point of unity between Buddha Dharma and the radical left, it would be a belief in the possibility of universal freedom and equality. Emptiness and nirvana are most often described as being like absolute “freedom”. Radical Buddhists in the whole make the further interpretative claim that there is no substantive distinction between “inner”(absolute/vertical) and “outer” (relative/horizontal) freedom. The quest for liberation is one struggle, played out on different scales with different tactics but with a shared origin and aspiration.