I would like to know what communist tendency you follow, why you follow it and who best represents your tendency of communism weather it be a modern day country like China or a country like the USSR?
The answer to this question myself is that I am a Marxist-Leninist. I follow Marxism Leninism because it gives power to the working class rather than the bourgeois and aims for a classless money less society this is achieved through following Marxist Leninist theory and analyzing the conditions in the country you are trying to achieve Marxism-Leninism in. Those who best represent Marxism Leninism for me are Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Hoxha.
You are right, we do not need to avoid labels completely. But, maybe phrasing better what I meant, I am a Marxist, as this is my main school of thought. However, my political line is Marxism-Leninism. This way I do consider Marxism a single scientific and philosophical school with many contributors, while my praxis leans toward Marxism Leninism.
Would not your political line and your school of thought be Marxism-Leninism? Saying you adhere to Marxism while having your praxis lean towards Marxism-Leninism sounds like you have a disconnect between what you follow theoretically and what you act upon, which sounds strange.
What I mean is that there’s only one field of thought, which is Marxism, and all people that came afterwards contributed to this field, in different ways. ML is a political line, a specific fraction of the whole field, which is the one I adhere. This is what I meant.