"When the self-emancipation of the working class is abandoned, liberation is outsourced – either to Western “progressive” imperialism or to “Actually Existing Socialism”. If Adorno said, “nothing but despair can save us”, Rockhill shares in that despair when he aligns himself with the Communist Party of China, which now counts billionaires among its members."
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/theory-betrayed-an-essay-on-gabriel-rockhills-who-paid-the-pipers-of-western-marxism-part-one/

"Since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, China has become the principal reference point for many Marxist-Leninists. It is hailed as an emerging superpower and harbinger of socialism. Nonetheless the PRC’s embrace of market mechanisms, entrenched inequality, and strategic alliances with imperialist states contradicts that image. This uncritical enthusiasm has led theorists such as Losurdo to revise fundamental Marxist categories. Communism is no longer about the abolition of markets or the withering away of the state. Instead, the conservative features of Stalinism – products of poverty, isolation, and civil war – are reified as emancipatory. Elements of Marx’s own project, including the main thrust of Lenin’s The State and Revolution, are criticised as utopian, anarchistic, or even “Bakuninist”."
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