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Who ever this person is needs to get their head out of their ass. Western Marxism did not produce an academically honest critique of the Soviet Union, it served to sell lies to Soviet leaders about how much better and more free their populations would be under democratic socialism, which never came to fruition.
Whatever problems exist within Rockhill's analysis, the fact that there has been no actual widespread public Weatern leftist re-examining of the Marxist-Leninist approach, in light of the opening of the Soviet Archives which put to bed the most absurd of Soviet stereotypes, is a damning nail in the coffin of most of these so called 'honest intellectuals'.
There have been a significant amount of informal work done. But western academia has relegated actual materialist analysis to the engineers, financiers, and supply chain managers, with the human affects relegated to non-profit work.
However, because of that, there is data out there to analyze.
Tbh, there's been a massive re-examination of the USSR since the archives opened in the 80s and 90s. This re-examination has been based on the archival evidence and materialist analysis, and can be seen in works like The Great Urals, Affirmative Action Empire, Arctic Mirrors, On Stalin's Team, etc. This work has not been carried out by Marxists and is often not read by leftists however
Why? For the first, because in general the more marxist you are the less likely you are to 1) decide to go into academia, 2) be accepted into academia, 3) be funded. The people who do this (useful) archival work on events that happened decades to a century ago are going to self select for people more interested in interpreting the world than changing it.
For the second, because 1) the more effective as an org a leftist group is, the less time.they will spend studying hundreds of pages of academic writings, and 2) many marxists either do not know such works exist, or discard them out of hand for not being written by leftists
All this is unfortunate, bc without such detailed examinations of the USSR, China, etc (warts and all) we cannot hope to do better in the future