By the time the counter-revolutionary attempt in Tienanmen Square happened in China, our party was so fully prepared that it didn't merit more than two discussions. We haven't turned our back on China, but the Chinese leadership have turned their backs on the anti-imperialist movement. They are doing all they can to introduce bourgeois reforms. And we are trying to assess them carefully. China and the reforms I might have been misunderstood in my last article.
China is still a workers' state.
But as Trotsky wrote about the USSR, it was a workers' state but with a whole list of conditions. And as you read the conditions more closely, it looked more and more dangerous. You can't take it for granted that a workers' state can exist for an indefinite length of time without support from the proletariat in the imperialist countries, where there is so much economic and financial power and so much know-how. That support is so necessary and so indispensable to the working classes in the oppressed countries. In the USSR, the bourgeois reforms have been reactionary in totality.