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That's a problem of interpretation, not analysis. All accurate analysis is accurate concretely, not abstractly. It was true at the time it was articulated that there was no revolutionary potential and the reasons were specific and concrete. Those reasons still hold today, but hold less so than they did back then.
The interpretation is not, therefore, that we can just abandon the project but rather that the task of revolutionaries in the core is to analyze the core from the inside, understand how the conditions produce the resultant revolutionary potential, identify what conditions need to be met, and work towards bringing about those conditions.