For better or worse most places, ML have spent generations wearing an empty husk of communism. Puppeteering it, slaughtering actual communist to the point it is wrongly identified with them.

If you see people talking about communism generally, assume they mean ML. Because that's generally what they're talking about. Outside of close friends or those I'm well familiar with I wouldn't discuss libertarianism or communism using those terms. But rather their underlying ideals and praxis. The terms largely are so poisoned outside academic discussion to be counter productive.

An-coms are fine as well as other non Leninist/Stalinist/Maoist/Dengist Marxist. If you value consent, and don't seek to crush dissent under vanguard oppression. Its all good. But it's going to take lifetimes of education action to remove the stains from those terms. But in the end, it's the ideals that matter, not what they're called.