Yeah, this is bullshit. marxists.org
Please read the arguments against this inane thesis, it waters down the term of "imperialism" to "being mean and have soldiers". If you believe what the USSR did was social imperialism, you might as well admit that Maoist China was imperialist as they invaded Tibet and pressured Vietnam - and mind you, Maoist China is the origin of that claim.
There is literally no reason to split with Cornholio over "revisionism" or whatever. If anything, revisionism was a concept that was only affecting the USSR internally, you could easily keep allied with the USSR and not being affected by it - Albania surely wouldn't have been since Hoxha was its undisputed leader. And what happened after his death? Albania turned revisionist faster than anybody in the Eastern Bloc despite severed ties to the USSR and China. So his whole theory of anti-revisionism is has been disproven by history and is completely irrelevant today. Same thing goes for Mao, sacrificing the communist movement over "theory" is absolutely crazy (and let's be honest, the idea that two gigantic powers would split over theory is ridiculous, nationalism was surely involved). That's like suggesting that the US would "split" with the UK over the theoretical conception of the Bill of Rights in the middle of the Cold War.
Why? You wouldn't need to have a high opinion of Dengism to see the obvious advantages an alliance with China would have. Why do you think Cuba and the DPRK are both seeking China's favor today despite both having rather critical relationship with China from a historical perspective (Cuba more than the DPRK)?
Yes but at the same time the USSR stifled support for communist movements in other countries outside the Global South, where socialism was always mixed with national liberation movements. An example would be '68 in France, and the FCP went so revisionist it's not even Eurocommunism anymore. If you really think about it, Krushchev was just continuing the mistakes Stalin made after WWII - believing in peacerful coexistence and curbing the militancy of communists world-wide.
