Authoritarians on the left don't tend to come neatly packaged in a onesie. They tend to emerge as an academic collective. See the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution and others for more on this. If you're looking for a dictator, you don't find one - the dictator is usually the last person standing once the academic group has seized the mechanisms of Government and fought each other. There doesn't need to be a SINGLE leader- that's not how it works for the left

With you on the joke insurrection though, people lost their lives. Not really a light-hearted picnic in the park.