Regardless of what “Mao said”, The material conditions for revolution are always present wherever there is class struggle, irrespective of incidental things like the geopolitical situation or what functionary was elected. There is no revolutionary class but the proletariat in 2023. Fascism does present obstacles, but dealing with that is a question of tactics - it does not change the underlying material conditions of society.
Regardless of the specific form that a capitalist state takes - whether it’s a liberal democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or state-capitalism such as China - the fundamental material contradictions of capitalism remain. That is, there’s still a capitalist class, or an entity that acts as an abstract capitalist, that owns the means of production and a working class that sells their labor power in exchange for wages. That’s going to be overcome by an international revolution, not a series of isolated national “revolutions” where we rely on some supposed revolutionary state-capitalist regime.
Regardless of what “Mao said”, The material conditions for revolution are always present wherever there is class struggle, irrespective of incidental things like the geopolitical situation or what functionary was elected. There is no revolutionary class but the proletariat in 2023. Fascism does present obstacles, but dealing with that is a question of tactics - it does not change the underlying material conditions of society.
Regardless of the specific form that a capitalist state takes - whether it’s a liberal democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or state-capitalism such as China - the fundamental material contradictions of capitalism remain. That is, there’s still a capitalist class, or an entity that acts as an abstract capitalist, that owns the means of production and a working class that sells their labor power in exchange for wages. That’s going to be overcome by an international revolution, not a series of isolated national “revolutions” where we rely on some supposed revolutionary state-capitalist regime.