The question was:
“In the False Left/True Left dichotomy, where would communism be?”
to which I answered:
False Left.
At that point, we were only considering where to place communism within the leftist axis. I admit some confusion could have been caused by the next part:
“given that it is, in essence, class-based tribalism, would it not, in fact, be more accurate to place it at the right, together with the other forms of tribalism?”
No, because tribalism is not what makes an ideology rightist. A positive evaluation of Western civilization is what makes an ideology rightist:
I stand by my above statement as a disagreement with Hypnotix's reasoning that tribalism implies rightism, but I hereby clarify that it would indeed be acceptable to place communism on the right, THOUGH NOT BECAUSE IT IS CLASS-BASED TRIBALISM (thus standing by my above statement), but because it evaluates Western civilization positively, as I implicitly noted subsequently:
I do state that Marx has something in common with neocons, but since neocons are only one faction of rightists, this cannot be considered a general rightist position. Besides, Marx only wanted capitalism to spread so that it could then be overthrown, whereas a sincere neocon would want it to spread and last.
To summarize:
1) If we were limited to classifying communism only along the False Left/True Left dichotomy, we would classify communism as False Left.
2) If we are permitted to classify communism as rightist, there is a case for doing so.
3) False Leftists are caught in the self-contradiction of liking progressivism while not wanting to credit Western civilization for progressivism due to their dislike of Western colonialism. Marx avoids this by finding a uniquely cynical way to like Western colonialism. On this account Marx is more similar to rightists than typical False Leftists are. Marx is a proud Westerner who merely disagrees that capitalism is the culmination of Western civilization, believing instead that communism is the culmination of Western civilization.