I’m not very advanced on theory so didn’t read much what socialists leaderships wrote throughout mostly 20th century, so I’m not familiar about what albanian line is all about, all i know is they call themselves anti-revisionists and love to trashtalk post deng china, sometimes even mao (which is odd to me) and tito’s yugoslavia.
this was brought to my attention because some subs here apparently don’t like them very much at the same time that the fastest growing communist movement in brazil follow the anti-revisionism line.
so, what are your thoughts about it?
I occasionally call it ‘counterrevisionist stagism’ because of how conservative it is in terms of theory. I haven’t had many encounters with ‘Hoxhaists’, but I used to read Red Phoenix News regularly and it has been a useful source in my research.
I can’t say too much about the tendency itself, but I shall say that any tendency that treats the people’s republics simply as more dictatorships of the bourgeoisie is, at best, useless to my class. I can agree that republics such as the PRC, the Republic of Cuba, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and so on are effectively presocialist since presocialist elements such as capital and wage labor continue to linger on to some extent or another, but I don’t find the conclusion that they’re just more capitalist states (with a little extra state ownership) compelling. The working masses in those republics have an influence that I have never seen in a Western régime like Imperial America, so as flawed as they are, outright hostility is excessive and only alienates me.