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Very cool!
Though if I may put on my theory nerd hat, PSL aren't exactly Marxist-Leninists. They're Marcyites, who are trots that accidentally reinvented ML, through Trot talking points.
So, for example, Sam Marcy split from the Socialist Workers Party to form the Workers World Party, and argued that Actually Existing Socialism's were "removedd workers states, like Trotsky asserted, but that this was a necessary stage they all had to pass through, by virtue of having to survive on a planet dominated by Capitalism.
Therefore, the Marcyites support AES, instead of opposing it, like other Trots do.
FFS why not just be ML and skip the pointless gymnastics? It shouldn't be controversial to anyone that no state is or will ever be perfect and that socialism is a transitional stage. I guess it still provides some cover (that apparently they still need having not grown out of their idealism) to be able to call AES states bad guy totalitarians that the good guy trots are better and purer than?
Edit: I'm referring here to Marcyites, not PSL as an org.
For all intents and purposes, they basically are MLs, as others responding to my comment have pointed out.
They just ended up reinventing the wheel, through a really weird, round-about way, that I find interesting.