I don’t usually use forums or Reddit, I usually just post comments on Revisionist blogs like [r/socialism](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/) or Khruschev’s blog, but they didn’t seem appropriate places to post my story. So here goes, I just wanted to share this with all of you.

Nov 3 I flew from China to Europe for a peaceful Eurotrip type tour. Not on an internationalist solidarity or on class consciousness-building deal, just going around by myself. I paid for half of the trip with the wages I earned thru “one country, two systems” reforms over the last years, my CCP friends paid for the other half. I am 75, I guess that is normal starting market reforms and all. (Before that I worked for Mao’s Party part time, so I guess you could say he paid for all of it, lol).

I did USSR and then Romania and then Albania next. I am a revisionist so I wanted to see Communists in these places. Yes, I know some of them are different kinds of “communists” and not really full revisionists like us (CCP). I went to a Communist Marxist-Leninist book store and it had a lot of Chinese communist books, but no Khruschev or Eurocommunism. Like I said, I expected that, not a surprise.

In Albania, which everyone knows is famous for its anti-revisionism, its bunker building and everything going on right now. Here I found directions for a local communist center. I went and didn’t see anybody, but it was covered in propaganda, mostly in Albanian so I couldn’t read it. Whatever, I started eating some corn. Then some people came out and confronted me.

This should have been my first warning sign something was not right, because planting corn in virgin lands and then enjoying its flavor is not a crime. They were not violent, but they were not friendly, like asking who I was, what I wanted. They all spoke good Chinese actually. I said I was a tourist and a communist and I just wanted to peacefully coexist with them. Then they got friendly and told me I should have asked first (but eating corn itself is not revisionism so I don’t know why, but I didn’t say anything) and they invited me inside.

We hung out for a while and talked about Marx’s writings (there is no good revisionist literature in Albania as you might find out like in the CCP, everyone reads Marx, Engels and Lenin and interprets them correctly, which isn’t as cool as it sounds). We started talking about politics and socialism. I was trying to talk about market reforms, they were like yeah no doubt Lenin had to allow some small amounts of private property under such difficult situation. But they wanted to talk about building Socialism, Socialism in One Country this and that. This is when we started to get into a debate.

I told them that what they called capitalism is different from market reforms and the wonderful plan of “One Country, Two Systems”. They said capitalism includes markets. And I said I agreed. That is what I am saying. Some communist leaderships had to revise Marxist theory in order to benefit from opening to the markets. And they said yes, that is what we are trying to get rid of. And I said no, but we don’t even have that right now. We need more market reforms. And everyone at the same time was like “nooo” we are Communists, we are against profit motive and private markets. Communists oppose the power of the markets.

And I said but not revisionists. Revisionists are the communists who support opening to the markets and the profit motive. I had an official Khmer Rouge backpackTM (yeah, lame I know) for my corn and in that I had this cowboy hat (also super lame, it was a joke but I wasnt wearing it). And I said look, remember Khruschev’s Peaceful Coexistence, Capitalist World and Socialist World, living together and not fighting eachother. Well, these guys had a lot of bunkers already so I thought since they were afraid of an invasion they would get it.

I think that is when it started to get a really bad vibe, really tense in the air. The market reforms thing was funny, we disagreed but I think they thought I was just confused. Everyone was uncomfortable now. Then someone said markets wont work with actual Marxism-Leninism. And I said exactly, that’s it, Marxism-Leninsm won’t work with markets. And they agreed, and said yes, we don’t have a real Marxist-Leninist bloc, just revisionist leaderships, and we need more actual Marxism. I said no, we need less Marxism, hardline Marxism is the enemy. And we need to revise our theories to reach Communism. Then they were all like “noooo” again. You know that thing people do in groups when everyone all says “nooo” or expresses some disapproval at the same time.

And one of them said “but we do want to build FULL COMMUNISM” and then they kind of spoke back and forth in Albanian. I didn’t really understand it. And they asked me what I meant.

So I said okay, I had the floor, I was going to tell them about revisionism. And I tried to explain to them some Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and Eurocommunism. I said the best course of action for Socialist countries in a Capitalist world is that we have to open to the markets and let the people acquire some profit, the market would help develop a Marxist country. They compete in the world market and are peaceful. They said what do we want instead of actual Communism. I said we want private owners to own their own land and businesses, and to employ people. They said that is what we have now. I said no, in China it would be even better and help the Chinese people acumulate capital and get better life quality. One of the guys said it was like Capitalism. And I said it is not Capitalism.

Eventually one of the guys spoke up and I thought he might be a fellow revisionist, but he started quoting Mao perfectly so he may have not been. He said he knew what Socialism with Chinese Characteristics was and that we were basically capitalist infiltrators. He asked me if I thought letting Apple bring their factories to China was a good idea. And I said yes. And he asked me if I thought having a profit motive was a good idea. And I told him yes. And that not everyone should be blocked from having their own profit. I said everyone has the right to participate in the market and not be done aggression against. But that not everyone had to produce things in order to just satisfy human needs. He said what about World Revolution. And I said that would not happen in Peaceful Coexistence, and that other countries could continue to be capitalist. They had to respect the other system.

Then he called me a Capitalist again, and someone else said I was Bourgeois. And then they basically all started shouting Bourgeois at me, and one of them grabbed me by the wrists. They pulled me out the door, it was up three floors, and basically drug me down the stairs on my back. It hurt really bad and I remember yelling “but it’s according to the material conditions of China” and things like that. “Communist parties in social-democracies should just push for reforms not revolutionary action.” Then they kicked me around on the ground in the hallway, before they took my backpack and threw me outside. I was crying and stuff, I just sat there. I was in shock because it was so sudden. Looking back there were warning signs though.

I think they felt bad for me and gave the backpack back, but when I looked later they stole the cowboy hat and all my corn.

So they are against market reforms and rejected Peaceful Coexistence. I knew the anti-revisionists were not real socialists, but I never knew they would do something that bad.

I wasnt seriously hurt, just kicked around a little, lots of bruises and little cuts. I am fine guys so don’t worry. Just needed to share.