Original sentence: Many also believe that the Chinese government, having embarked on a program of capitalist-style economic reform and modernization in the late 1970s, is keen to use propaganda to portray the CCP as a nationalistic and patriotic party, rather than simply as a party that builds socialism or implements Marxism-Leninism in China, since these have largely been abandoned in practice and thus can no longer serve as effective bases for loyalty to the regime
Edited sentence: Many also believe that the Chinese government, having embarked on an ambitious and irreversible program of capitalist-style economic reform and modernization in the late 1970s, is keen to use propaganda to portray the CCP as a nationalistic and patriotic party, rather than simply as a party that builds socialism or implements Marxism-Leninism in China, since these have largely been abandoned in practice and thus can no longer serve as effective bases for loyalty to the regime