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The reason for this vibrant ideological diversity is the third group of commies. Everyone who is part of this group wants to be a powerful leader, but the problem with groups of people who want to be powerful leaders is that you can only have one all-powerful leader at any given time. These communists, not content to be the second in command, branch off with their own special snowflake variant of communism of which they can be the Supreme Leader. Of course, being the Supreme Leader of the five people who truly believe in your version of communism isn't enough, so they attempt to cannibalize other variants of communism in order to grow their own power base.
This is why you see so much leftist infighting. Leftist groups attack each other viciously. To outsiders, groups like antifa may seem like one unified whole, but the reality is that there are many different "cells" of antifa and similar leftist groups, each of which will have their own area of operations and each of which will compete with the others to become the standard bearers of the One True Leftism. It isn't uncommon in leftist organizations to hear leftists accuse other leftists of being fascists. Ironically for people who proclaim global unity and open borders to be their end goals, these groups are very tribalistic.
You may have noticed that I've mentioned power, and gaining more power, quite a lot. This is because to the third group of commies, power is everything. It's literally the one thing they think of, the one metric they use to visualize politics. This is why so much leftist dogma is about "power dynamics." The progressive stack is the method used to order people into a hierarchy based on which group deserves to have the most power. Leftist talking points always seem to mention "marginalized people" and "evening the power dynamic." Marxism in general is all about separating groups of people into two groups – the "oppressed" and the "oppressor" – and using the "oppressed" to flip the game board and seize power. This is why the term "cultural marxism" is so relevant. It's taking the "oppressed/oppressor" dynamic of marxism and applying it to everything from culture, to race, to sex, to sexuality, to whole nations.
This obsession with power is why you see leftists so quickly resort to underhanded tactics. Someone you don't like is saying stuff? Pull a fire alarm to end the speech. Someone is debating you and they are bringing up facts and statistics that you can't counter? Shout "racist!" thus shutting up your opponent and winning the debate. People are gathering to protest something you don't like? Attack them. The police attempt to remove your weapons to prevent you from attacking them? "Oh no officer, this pole is for my flag :)." Get punched in the face by someone who had the temerity to defend himself, after you attacked him first? "Oh, woe is me! I was assaulted by this evil nazi bigot! Please arrest him officer! I'm a good boy who dindunuffin!"
A normal person cannot understand the underhanded nature of leftists because a normal person is not so underhanded themselves. A normal person will debate in good faith. A normal person will allow people to speak their mind, even if they don't like that person. A normal person will do this because a normal person is more concerned about what is right than with seizing as much power as possible. As a result, a normal person will argue with the goal of determining the truth. To a leftist, however, any debate is simply a chance to convert more people into followers. The truth doesn't matter because the leftist doesn't care about it. He doesn't even care about the core tenets of his ideology. All he cares about is saying the correct buzzwords to get the support necessary to increase his power, or to prevent your group from increasing its level of power. So if pulling a fire alarm will achieve that, he'll do it. It doesn't matter if that does nothing to prove his ideology correct, because he simply doesn't care. All that matters is maintaining his group's power while deplatforming any competitors.