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>This is not about blame.You can see people in this very thread, as well as other leftcom texts, doing just that. They disregard the historical and material context in which these decisions were made, which incidently implies that the groups who made them did so because they are dumb and follow a dumb ideology. A very idealistic way of seeing the matter, if you will.
>The point of the text is that the national project will subsume and destroy the socialist project if the socialist movement is willing to subordinate itself to a nationAgain, this is dictated by the correlation of forces at the time. In China, the Kuomitang lost because the communist movement showed itself to be the more competent at disputing the masses and waging war. But if they had not declared a truce, they'd both be erradicated under japanese occupation.
Not every movement will know how to navigate that balance properly, and as a result they will be coopted or destroyed, as they were in the exemples that you cited.
>This is true of places in which socialism "won" as well, like China or VietnamThe decaying of socialist construction is another matter, although related. Maoism develops a remedy to that in the form of Cultural Revolution, although admittedly we need further proof of concept of this.