It wasn’t them redirecting oil to Israel instead of Cuba? Or them opening their markets to US companies and investors? Or them signing up for IMF style structural adjustments and austerity programs?

It’s interesting how hard it is to get communists to see when a socialist state is going full revisionist, considering it’s the number one danger and cause of death of revolutions but so many are blinded to it as it begins. Some kind of denial and psychological defense mechanism maybe? Invested too much into defense of the specific state government instead of the principles of socialism?

The success of China has basically broken the brains of some MLs (Dengists) who believe now that rightwing revisionism is not only fine, but necessary. China was a fluke due to its sovereignty due to size and nukes, combined with the opportunistic timing of absorbing US and Soviet industrial capacity as both mutually deindustrialized at the end of the Cold War. Stop thinking it’s a repeatable model. Other nations won’t be able to handle the forces of imperialist capital as they are too small and will be colonized, as we have always seen in IMF takeovers and neoliberalization. Even China got dangerously close to completely abandoning socialism, we really should not be embracing the “Dengist model” as a standard for general socialist use. It’s a defense mode and retreat and comes with huge risks and costs, and should only be done carefully by powerful large states as a last resort.