it would be disastrous for the CPC to lose power unless it were somehow replaced with another Communist revolution (which... ain't gonna happen in the near future). So the conclusion was to remain critical but support the socialist tendencies that still exist.

this is a fact and one of the main reason I despise the people who say "USSR was State capitalist sweaty" ,the USSR's existence even at it's sad final days was a good thing for the world and for the people of the 3rd world and the global south