I watched Paul Jay's Reality Asserts Itself series of interviews with Finkelstein, and they talked about Finkelstein's die hard Maoist youth, with a funny episode about cops going to Finkelstein's house and seeing a bunch of Maoist posters in his room, his mom quickly told the police that Finkelstein liked Chinese people lol. After the death of Mao, the arrest of the Gang of Four, and Deng's reforms, Finkelstein drifted away from Maoism and pretty much Leninism. One of his profs (maybe a lib I don't remember) told Finkelstein that there will be a McDonald's in China soon when Deng opened up. Now if China nationalizes McD's, is that the CPC's turn back towards Socialism? lol