Yeah, authoritarian... no thanks.
Besides war, fascism is known for it's crackdown on opposing thought. Banning of factions like you said, is one red flag. He created a single-party state.
Then there's the suppression of opposition along with massacres in the Red Terror. Then you have the ''war communism'' he instated from 1918-1921:
The system has often been described as simple authoritarian control by the ruling and military castes to maintain power and control in the Soviet regions, rather than any coherent political ideology.
And this guy is lauded as an anti-imperialist figure?
Source or cap.