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Anarchocommunists like to gatekeep and pretend that state communists are actually right wing, because they can't fathom that their ideology could have some dark shameful parts too. Sorta like when republicans claim the nazis were socialist because they don't want to face the dark parts of their ideology. Turns out though, the tankies are leftists, and are communists, they just either think the "stateless" part comes after the party gains totalitarian control through murdering dissenters, or they actually admit that will never happen and just prefer totalitarian control they think they'll be a party member of.
In other words: fascism. They are not leftists.
Eeehhhhhh no, that's the gatekeeping "communism is when good" thing I was talking about.
Communism, definitionally, cannot have a state. That isn't gatekeeping. Your can argue about getting there but then tankies generally support states with no interest in actually doing that.
Sometimes, sometimes they at least pretend they intend on abolishing the state even though we all know they're lying even just by virtue of "even if you're well intentioned once it exists it will never kill itself." But also that's why they aren't marxists, they're state communists, they take all the leftist communist ideals +state i.e "not right wing." Right wing =! "when state."
Economic Leftists are fascists.