i wouldnt call them fake leftist just more practical leftist.  pretty much every communist system came in and legitimately tried marxist policies only to find them extremly disastrous to the point they nearly killed the country in both the ussr and china and then had to walk back nearly if not all of them and then adopt capitalistic policies in turn just becoming a generic authoritarian state that nearly mirrors fascism which likewise spawned from mussolini deciding generic socialism/communism was stupid  tl;dr its not real communism was never tried. it was tried and found to suck
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