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If "the party" is "the worker's party," or "the collective," as has historically been the case, it absolutely can be. It's like the rightoids claiming the nazis were socialist, they just want to pretend the worst parts of their ideology are actually someone else's ideology instead of just admitting "yes, X can be done wrong, it can also be done this other way which I think is right."
The fact that tankies are leftists isn't an admonishment of leftists at large, the leftists at large's inability to admit tankies are "the demon within themselves" (in terms of whole party not in you necessarily,) is however.
Of course, many on the right and left define their side as "everything good," and the other as "everything bad," so, if you're one of those, then yeah I guess, whatever dude. In any case this conversation seems pointless, you've determined that "leftist authoritarians can't be leftists frfr" and nothing I say will make you see just how silly that is.