Actually existing socialism
"Actually existing socialism" (AES), also known as "real socialism" or "existing socialism", is a fictitious[1][2] concept developed which originated in the Brezhnevite social-imperialist Soviet Union and is presently propagated by followers of other trends of modern revisionism.
Despite the seemingly concurable aspects of "AES", this concept was developed in revisionist ideology as a means of deflecting criticism for revisionists' ideological deviations from theory. Followers of "AES", both historical and present, maintain that spreading revolution and thus building socialism in one's own country is secondary, if not entirely omitable and futile (particularly when it concern "first world countries", as most supporters of the "AES" doctrine also happen to be third-worldists), in comparison to spreading propaganda (if not apologia) in favour of a country which they perceive as being "AES" (such "AES" countries are actually capitalist and social-imperialist states largely, such as the Soviet Union after Stalin or modern China).
"AES" followers care little for actual ideological content, and instead base their view of "socialism" off rhetoric and symbols which the ruling parties of so-called "AES" states maintain. Thus, "AES" followers view countries such as modern China (a state which is social-imperialist and organized on a fascist corporatist and class collaborationist economic model) or the former Brezhnevite Soviet Union (which was under the control of a social-fascist military junta[3]) as being entirely socialist and full dictatorships of the proletariat (despite neither modern China nor the historical revisionist Soviet Union actually claming to be a proletarian dictatorship).
Followers of "AES" claim there exist, at the least, five "AES" states in the world — China, Vietnam, the DPRK (North Korea), Laos, and Cuba. However, none of these countries are under the socialist mode of production. In truth, the last socialist state to exist (and the only one from the time of 1956-1990) was the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.
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References
- ↑ The “AES” Doctrine: Wrong Then, Wrong Now (September 14, 2020)
- ↑ Does "actually existing socialism" exist in the modern age? (February 5, 2023)
- ↑ https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/1969/01/10.htm