I literally only play that game because I love the silly things you can do in it to make communism happen. Look, playing the USSR in an economic simulator or a Great Patriotic War game is awesome. But ahistorical revolution paths are even better. I swear, playing Vicky 3, is the only time I can ever get myself to admit that maybe the USSR shouldn't be held up as the be all and end all of communism, maybe the symbols of modern ML ideals don't need to be specifically Soviet symbols, maybe vanguardism doesn't have to be the exact words "all power to the soviets". (Most of the time, I'll say things about us being stuck in 1917, but... I'm worse than the comrades I'm criticizing. I still call myself a Bolshevik, for one, and I do tend to say "soviet" when I mean "council". Among other terminology from Soviet times that hasn't made any sense to still use since '91.)

Point is, I generally only play that game because I like its "vanguardism", and I always choose that path over any other leftist path. (As much as twelve year old me would have enjoyed the fantasy that anarchist paths in these games tend to offer.) And I do like the term in the context the game uses it in, and the context it's started to take on in RL politics.