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If you see a reactionary impulse as a desire to go back to an imagined past, the "old guard" communists (who mostly didn't seem to have lived under communism) aka the tankies, being similar to crusty old fascists (who also didn't live in a fascist regime, or in the world depicted by 50s americana postcards/commercials) makes a lot of sense.
It's ironic that there is a "good old days" of (state) Communism, seeing that it was supposed to be the end of history.
(side note, back in HS I saw a graph illustrating the Marxist theory that successive revolutions lifted human civilization up a series of stairs (pastoralism -> city states -> feudalism -> centralized kingdoms -> bourgeois capitalism) up until Communism where these steps became an ascending straight line... and I though "hey, why does the line straighten out just there???")
They never said which end
Obviously the arse end.