I occasionally call it ‘counterrevisionist stagism’ because of how conservative it is in terms of theory. I haven’t had many encounters with ‘Hoxhaists’, but I used to read Red Phoenix News regularly and it has been a useful source in my research.
I can’t say too much about the tendency itself, but I shall say that any tendency that treats the people’s republics simply as more dictatorships of the bourgeoisie is, at best, useless to my class. I can agree that republics such as the PRC, the Republic of Cuba, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and so on are effectively presocialist since presocialist elements such as capital and wage labor continue to linger on to some extent or another, but I don’t find the conclusion that they’re just more capitalist states (with a little extra state ownership) compelling. The working masses in those republics have an influence that I have never seen in a Western régime like Imperial America, so as flawed as they are, outright hostility is excessive and only alienates me.