A Marxist-Leninist, a type of Authoritarian Communism. In political science, Marxism–Leninism was the official state ideology of the Soviet Union (
USSR), of the parties of the
Communist International after Bolshevisation and it is the ideology of Stalinist political parties. The purpose of Marxism–Leninism is the revolutionary transformation of a capitalist state into a
socialist state, by
way of two-stage revolution, which is led by a vanguard party of professional revolutionaries, drawn from the proletariat. To realise the two-stage transformation of the state, the vanguard party establishes the dictatorship of the proletariat, which determines policy through democratic centralism.
If you're going to argue that any invocation of a Marxist-Leninist state is going to lead to
people like Stalin becoming Strongman and taking power, then,
like, that's a pretty fuckin' anti-ML take there.