That’s where you’re wrong, the vast majority of socialists today are Marxists.

Participating in a violent overthrow of capitalism? ✅

Establishing an authoritarian socialist dictatorship that rules with an iron fist? ✅

Seizing land and property by force? ✅

Purging anybody and everybody that didn’t fall in line under the guise of being “anti-revolutionary”? ✅

Destroying the environment, cities, culture, and people to bring about the social climate necessary to bring about communism™? ✅

Committing genocides to get rid of “anti-revolutionary” groups? ✅

Pumping propaganda about Marxism? ✅

Ruling as the dictator of the the communist party that supposed to rule on the “behalf” of workers? ✅

He’s a Marxist and there’s literally nothing you could say to change that.

Many Marxists are damaged enough to actually believe that Marxism isn’t authoritarian when it inherently is. Authoritarianism ≠ fascism. Fascism is just one of many ideologies that are authoritarian, Marxism is among these ideologies.

It’s like the tankies who say Stalin was a fascist and not a Marxist, they’re, like you said, brain dead